To the editor:

Wounded Warriors contacted me and asked to be accepted into the Operation Open Arms fold. How would/could you say no? I couldn’t. I didn’t.

Little did I know (and this would have no bearing) that the VFW nationally had sent W-Warriors over $100,000.00 in donations. OOA has $1900.00

to its name. Surely you can spot something obviously troubling from a donation standpoint.

OOA provides benefits to an organization with millions in funding a complete benefits package as we struggle to survive with $1900.00 in our treasury. It never occurred to me to say no. How do you say no to those who left various parts of themselves on the battlefield? If the pressure on OOA become so over bearing because of this agreement, so be it. Basically my appeal to the VFW is “Hey, when you throw out the bones to the dogs in the backyard, please have someone with some “GiddyUp” throw some of those bones to the dogs in the very back of the yard. Operation Open Arms is not getting fed. What’s it gonna take, Sarah McLaughlin?”

Capt John “GiddyUp” Bunch

St. James City