{"id":29400,"date":"2020-03-09T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=29400"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:27:17","slug":"fsc-vets-collect-coats-for-vets-without-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2020\/03\/09\/fsc-vets-collect-coats-for-vets-without-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Vets Collect Coats for Vets Without Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs work-study student, Jamilyn Butto &#8217;20, recently suggested a coat drive for homeless veterans to VA Director Eric Farina. Coats would be collected and donated to the United Veterans Beacon House, in Bay Shore. Final tally: 53 coats, sweaters, and sweatshirts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew this was going to have a great impact on the homeless vets living in those shelters,\u201d said Farina, also advisor to Student Veterans of America.<\/p>\n<p>The project was manned by student-veterans, volunteers from Farina&#8217;s History 332 class, and directors from Student Affairs. This act of service had a particular impact on U.S. Marine vet Kim Forte &#8217;23, who had been a resident at a Beacon House shelter for several months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a little emotional when I heard Eric announce the project, and who would receive the coats,&#8221; Forte says. \u201cI knew what a great job they do to help Long Island veterans in need. I was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs work-study student, Jamilyn Butto &#8217;20, recently suggested a coat drive for homeless veterans to VA Director Eric Farina. Coats would be collected and donated to the United Veterans Beacon House, in Bay Shore. Final tally: 53 coats, sweaters, and sweatshirts. \u201cI knew this was going to have a great impact on the homeless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":29405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29400"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29400\/revisions\/29534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}