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Article: Veterans to benefit.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2006
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Byline: Paola Iuspa-Abbott
Aug. 22--Riviera Beach -- Bad luck for a group of military veterans over the Memorial Day weekend has turned into good luck for patients at the VA Medical Center. After a thief ran off with the VFW's donation jug, filled with about $1,000, from in front of the Wal-Mart west of Boca Raton, irate contributors soon donated 15 times that amount to restore the loss, said Al Lesser, quartermaster for Post 10556.
"I call it sympathy money," he said. The Veterans of Foreign Wars post is buying furniture to decorate hospice-like rooms, blood machines, televisions and walking aids with $15,000 it raised after the original ...