Veterans Day dawned with freezing temperatures. But that didn’t put a chill on the yearly Operation Thank You at Tallahassee’s Lake Ella American Legion Hall. Hundreds of military vets showed up for a pre-parade breakfast.<\/p>\n
Elected officials and other community leaders worked the chow line as the veterans enjoyed a hearty breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs, grits, gravy and biscuits. Post Commander Dennis Hall was grateful for all the help.<\/p>\n
“For 13 years it’s been a great partnership between us and the county.”<\/p>\n
And County Commission Chair Brian Welch noted the event was a metaphor for all that local government and human service organizations do year-round in Tallahassee to help those who served.<\/p>\n
“I think the Operation Thank You breakfast really encapsulates the idea of what we want to do in Leon County and really in the whole community at large.”<\/p>\n
The county’s veterans services office provides financial help to eligible veterans in need. That can include housing, utilities, temporary shelter, and transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veterans Day dawned with freezing temperatures. But that didn’t put a chill on the yearly Operation Thank You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}