In Country Vietnam Motorcycle Club poker run

Vets' poker run to benefit PTSD program at Roseburg VA

Kathy Korengel
The News-Review

John Horwath knows what it's like to go to war. He has gone and come back and learned to live with some of the consequences.

“You go to another country and call them enemies and kill someone who's your age, or God forbid, younger than you,” Horwath, a Vietnam War veteran from Sutherlin, said. “I live with that every day.”

But he and several other Vietnam War combat veterans are doing their part this weekend to make it easier on returning vets. The veterans, all members of the Southern Oregon Chapter of the In Country Vietnam Motorcycle Club, are holding a benefit poker run on Saturday.

Any proceeds raised will go toward buying iPods for veterans in the residential posttraumatic stress disorder unit at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

“Everything we do is for the veterans,” Horwath said. “Being Vietnam veterans who know how tough it is.”

Sandra Llecholech, chief of Mental Health Service at the VA Roseburg Healthcare System, said in an e-mail, “I am always touched by the compassion and brotherhood that is displayed each and every day by veterans who want to make a real difference in the lives of emotionally wounded veterans.
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