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Although the main focus of Americans Standing Together Proudly is to provide emergency funding to family members of deployed soldiers, there are times when our veterans are in need of immediate assistance as well and the volunteers of ASTP are always “armed and ready” to answer the call to the best of their abilities.
One example of the dedication of our volunteers is shown below in photographs from a project to install a wheelchair ramp to the house of one such veteran. Although most of us view our homes as a “safe haven,” a house can be transformed into a prison of sorts when the owner cannot come and go as they please. And even though these steps are tiny in height and small in count, they transposed themselves into a guard preventing free exit and entry since the veteran was dependent upon a wheelchair for assistance.
ASTP volunteers joined their various handy-man skills and resources together to eliminate this man-made barrier. Within a day, this veteran was returned the gift of freedom he once fought so bravely to preserve through this peaceful process (minus the noise of construction of course!).
