Marine Amputee Iraq Veteran Gets Car and Care from Viden Dealtership

Anonymous donor helps Iraq veteran, family
Delaware County Daily Times
By Tim Logue
POSTED: 05/16/14

U.S. Marine veteran Greg Gerard poses with his girlfriend Amber Falck and their kids Gavin, 3, and Aubrie, 9 months, at the Videon Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership in Newtown Square. They received a $7,000 check from Videon through the dealership’s relationship with Operation First Response.
(Times staff / ERIC HARTLINE)

EDGMONT — Steve Videon expected to see an Iraq War veteran exiting his West Chester Pike dealership in a 2014 Dodge Dart Tuesday.

But after discussing a few options with Greg Gerard, a retired Marine from Lancaster County, the owner of Videon Chrysler Jeep Dodge cut him a $7,000 check instead.

“He thought it over Tuesday night and called us back to say he was going to take the check,” said Videon, who had donated a two-year lease to support the fund-raising efforts of Operation First Response, a Virginia-based non-profit that assists wounded and disabled combat veterans.

Gerard was in line to receive the car thanks to an anonymous donor who won the lease at a raffle held at the May 3 Walk for the Wounded event in Rose Tree Park.

The winner, a Delaware County woman who works for the Boeing Company, spent $20 on her raffle ticket and was conspicuously reserved when her name was called.
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