Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson are the two veterans. On August 30, 2013 they left, on foot, departing from the Milwaukee County War Memorial in downtown Milwaukee for what was a five-month -- and 2,700-mile -- journey across the country that ended on January 30, 2014 at the Santa Monica pier
at the end of Route 66.
Tom and Anthony had three goals:
To raise donations for Dryhootch in the sum of $100,000.
To raise awareness of the issues influencing Veterans and their families.
To take the time they felt they needed (and didn’t take after their return home from deployments in Iraq and separation from military service).
Dryhootch is a nonprofit organization formed by combat veterans to help Veterans returning home.
Both Tom and Anthony helped the Milwaukee Veterans Acupuncture clinic when we were first getting started. They let us take pics of them receiving treatment.
On February 15th, a welcome home celebration was held in their honor at back at the Milwaukee County War Memorial.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was on hand.
As were a number of family, friends, and supporters.
And lots of cameras!
MVA Clinic Team Leader, Chris Jablonski managed to get by the crush of media to greet Tom and Anthony.
The Veterans Trek continues . . .
Tom and Anthony continue to welcome donations - see this link on the Veterans Trek website.
Welcome home, gentlemen. Thank you for your service!
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