Home Depot Celebration of Service at Marietta GA VFW

Veterans helping veterans: 'This is personal'
6:55 AM, Oct 5, 2011
Written by
Matt Pearl

MARIETTA, Ga. -- Of the 200+ Home Depot volunteers who came to fix up a VFW post in Marietta, nearly two dozen were veterans themselves.

Last month, the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer began its Celebration of Service, a two-month collection of community service projects designed to help veterans. They kicked the efforts off locally by renovating VFW Post 2681 in Marietta.

What made the event special were the handful of veterans who came out to work to help other veterans.

"This is personal, this is professional, and this is a tremendous opportunity," said one such veteran, Oregon Emerson III.

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