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Thanks to the businesses and services who attended Military Buddy Check Day to support Lodge 7 members
“I’m hoping members walked away saying that ‘Hey, we have somebody who’s on our team, somebody who’s willing to help, and all you have to do is ask,’” Henderson proposed. “At the end of the day, I felt relieved that FOP saw a need to do this. We have
a bunch of officers out here who are hurting, who are mental- ly, financially, spiritually and physically damaged from deploy- ment. And the takeaway is that we need to do this more for our service members on the job.”
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