steven
July 9th, 2007, 11:21 AM
He’s the man behind the vans and the success of the Disabled American Veterans van transportation program at Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
For nearly seven years, Vietnam veteran Richard Kloc, 64, of Cheektowaga, has been volunteering from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. five days a week so other veterans have a ride to the medical center. — enough hours for Kloc to have as a full-time job. Last year, he donated nearly 2,100 hours of service.
America is at war again, and “our fellow veterans have given their arms, their legs and sometimes their lives,” he said. “The closest that any of us can do to thank them is to do whatever we can to make sure that they get to where they need to go.”
Kloc’s work has even been recognized at the national level. He recently received top honors in a Washington, D.C., ceremony celebrating his contributions to the community.
As he conferred recently with volunteer driver Tom Green in a van donated by area United Auto Workers, Kloc said he once was behind the wheel himself for the program. But he got so busy with logistics that he never looked back.
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/115365.html
For nearly seven years, Vietnam veteran Richard Kloc, 64, of Cheektowaga, has been volunteering from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. five days a week so other veterans have a ride to the medical center. — enough hours for Kloc to have as a full-time job. Last year, he donated nearly 2,100 hours of service.
America is at war again, and “our fellow veterans have given their arms, their legs and sometimes their lives,” he said. “The closest that any of us can do to thank them is to do whatever we can to make sure that they get to where they need to go.”
Kloc’s work has even been recognized at the national level. He recently received top honors in a Washington, D.C., ceremony celebrating his contributions to the community.
As he conferred recently with volunteer driver Tom Green in a van donated by area United Auto Workers, Kloc said he once was behind the wheel himself for the program. But he got so busy with logistics that he never looked back.
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/115365.html