This would be a great idea.... a LOT of Vets LOVE to fish, and I suspect MANY love to Fly Fish.. Every time I go to the VA hospital, I think I have it bad cause of lower back, and hip problems, PTSD, Depression and Panic Attacks, But I walk into the VA in Birmingham AL (or ANY VA hospital), and I see other vets with no arms,legs, eyes, no hearing.. etc etc, and my problems seem petty... Go to a VA hospital and share with some of these vets like this.. Some have NO family etc.. Like Jimi said, they would LOVE it .. Chuck
. I kept 2 sets. > Of the remaining 4 I took 2 sets up to the VA hospital and gave them to > Mike, (he is Viet Nam Vet without any legs and volunteers all around the > hospital on his little red scooter). I enjoy talking to him and hearing his > tails of big trout in Montana. I visited him the next time I was up there > and he thanked me for the flies again, and told me that he had given them to > a couple of Vets in the Spinal Cord injury ward and brightened their day. So > the next time I went up I took the other 2 sets, plus some other flies in > some small plastic boxes as well as some outdoor magazines and gave those to > him. I did not see him when I was up there yesterday, but I have 2 more > trips up there over the next 2 weeks. >
