Vietnam Veteran opens home to fellow veterans

Vietnam vet opens his Bellingham home, shoreline, to fellow veterans
By Jessica Trufant
Daily News staff
Milford Daily News
Posted Aug 19, 2012

BELLINGHAM
Disabled veteran Dennis Auger realizes how lucky he is to live along the shore of Lake Hiawatha.

So Auger opens his home to other disabled servicemen and women who are not quite as lucky, and each summer he hosts a day of fishing and barbequing for the patients of the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Brockton.

"For years we used to go into the hospital, and then my friend Mick said, ‘Why don’t you do something at your house? You have the lake and the sand,’ so we started hosting it here, and it’s the eighth year," said Auger, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard and was injured during the Vietnam War.

Mickey Emery, an Army veteran also hurt in Vietnam, died in 2010, but Auger on Saturday carried on the cookout tradition in honor of his friend.
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