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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nOur buddy, John Ott, sends us a link to a report<\/a> of the work with which he’s currently engaged in York, Pennsylvania – building a veterans’ homeless shelter. You might remember John Ott from the story of his son Matthew<\/a> who gives to veterans from the proceeds of his lemonade stand. John and Matthew have also taken a stand against Stolen Valor in Pennsylvania which will lead to the State’s own Stolen Valor Act. <\/p>\n The homeless shelter was the dream of Sandy Walker, who unfortunately passed away earlier this year, but his dream lives on in his daughter, Sandie and John Ott as they toll through this especially hot and humid weekend to finish Sandy’s project;<\/p>\n “I know he’ll be proud once it’s finished,” Sandie said. The goal is to get the shelter complete by the winter. Once finished, veterans will be able to get help for the little things, like bus fare, as well as the big things, like housing, food and medications. “There’s no reason why any veteran should be a need,” Sandie said. For Sandie, Ott and the other volunteers a little sweat, they say, is the least they can give when they consider what veterans have already given.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our buddy, John Ott, sends us a link to a report of the work with which he’s currently engaged in York, Pennsylvania – building a veterans’ homeless shelter. You might remember John Ott from the story of his son Matthew who gives to veterans from the proceeds of his lemonade stand. John and Matthew have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sandy-Walker.jpg?fit=375%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fQu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}