Vets Helping Vets Regatta Brings Cardboard Fleet to Lake

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer

Vets Helping Vets of Anderson’s “Lost City Regatta” welcomed a fleet of cardboard boats and their crews and others Saturday to the Shores of Asbury as part of an event featured food, live music and a pirate costume contest all for a good local cause.

VHVA began as a community of 14 Veterans who were suffering from PTSD. When the Veterans Administration, which facilitated meetings to aid these veterans, discontinued the meetings in 2014, local veterans met the challenge and not only found a new place to meet but saw the need to expand services and support for their brothers and sisters who served the nation.

The group has grown from that handful of vets in 2014 to more than 200 in attendance at their meetings today. A new building off Bleckley Street is close to completion which will allow for more meetings and work for vets.