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Ridgewood vet crossing US on motorcycle on mission to boost housing for wounded warriors
JUNE 29, 2014, 1:40 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2014, 2:44 PM
BY ANDREW WYRICH
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Vietnam war medic Richard King and his motorcycle face a long road this summer, and a new live-saving mission: rally Hometown America into ensuring that when disabled war veterans come home, a proper home awaits them.
King, a 65-year-old Ridgewood resident, began a 10,000-mile motorcycle ride across the United States on Sunday at the American Legion Post No. 170 in Rochelle Park; kicking off his “Long Road Home America” fundraiser to help raise awareness about the need for housing adapted to those veterans’ injuries.
“I volunteered to go to Vietnam when I was a young man because I felt it was my obligation to share in the sacrifice my fellow Americans were making during that time,” King said. “I had a rekindling of those feelings when I saw all of the parallels from the past with these post-9/11 veterans coming back with terrible wounds and needing help acclimating back into our society.”
King said his time serving as a member of the 44th Medical Brigade in the 9th Division in South Vietnam in 1969 made him aware of the issues facing many veterans, and he began thinking of ways to help last October. After months of searching, King said he found the Homes For Our Troops charity, which is a national non-profit organization that builds specialty adapted homes for service members with life-altering injuries.
King said all of the money he raises through Long Road Home America will go directly to Homes For Our Troops.
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