The American Legion Riders from the Helderberg Post 977 in Altamont donated $15,000 to the Soldier On program to help veterans doing time in jail.
On Nov. 24, the Kiwanis Club of Western Turnpike Guilderland prepared packages of Thanksgiving foods for people who need them.
Stoic men, many of them soldiers, silently wept when a father spoke of his son being killed in action. He wept, too, and said later that the contribution to the Wounded Warriors Program hit home.
