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Monday, January 18, 2010

Familiar face answers the call for veterans

Familiar face answers the call for veterans
Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of Governor’s Outreach Center, to aid vets as volunteer.
BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com


The Veterans of Vietnam War and Veterans Coalition have a new person, but hardly a trainee, helping out in a volunteer capacity.


FRED ADAMS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER

Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of the Governor’s Outreach Assistance Center, is donating her time at the office on the Pittston Bypass to do what she does best – help veterans.

A Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam era, Gonzalez said she wants to finish what she left incomplete when the outreach assistance center closed because of state budget cutbacks.

“Suddenly, with little notice, I had to leave my office, and in my eyes, abandon all the veterans that I always took care of – the veterans who came to me for help,” Gonzalez said.

“They came to me one after another for all the problems and issues facing today’s American veteran, whether they be World War II, Korea, Vietnam, peacetime and especially -- our new young brave veterans of today -- our veterans who’ve been coming home from multi-tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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