A neighboring city to Vernon, Manchester, is showing appreciation for veterans.
Veterans in the area may soon have access to health-centered workshops thanks to a federal grant. Healing Into Wholeness, which will include meditation, biofeedback, massage, and yoga workshops, is set to begin in spring at the veteran's hospital. Veterans will have personalized inventories for their health. The hospital has improved its reputation over the years and currently offers yoga and acupuncture.
On December 7, Manchester's Elks Lodge 1893 hosted the Holiday Veterans Gathering. Over 250 veterans attended the event, including the oldest living veteran in the state who experienced Pearl Harbor, Floyd Welch. Welch was given a Pearl Harbor commemorative pin and thanked those who attended, saying he simply saw it as doing his job.
Welch, now 96, was in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor on the USS Maryland battleship on that day of the attack. Aged just 19 at the time, he said he was about to get dressed when he heard the alarm, and had no time to put on clothes before the rescue team sprang into action. The USS Maryland and the USS Oklahoma were tied together, and the Oklahoma had capsized with its crew in the harbor water. Welch was part of the group that helped them up onto the Maryland.
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