ALCOA, Tenn. (WVLT)– An East Tennessee war veteran got his freedom back. The amputee was a prisoner in his own home; unable to get down the stairs in his wheelchair — until now. “Gets me out of my house,” Steve Lundy, a war veteran from 1976, said. The Alcoa veteran relies on a wheelchair to get…
On October 3, 1863, in the midst of the bloodiest war America has ever fought, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” All of us at Vet to Vet Tennessee…
Two veterans were very thankful for participating and completing the Monroe County Veterans Court (MCVC) program during the graduation ceremony the day before Thanksgiving. Congratulations Army Veteran Mitchell Greene and Marine John Potorski! The ceremony was lead by MCVC Judge Dwaine Thomas and was joined by the Monroe County Mayor Mitch Ingram, Madisonville Mayor Glenn…