{"id":6589,"date":"2013-09-27T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:44:16","slug":"chuck-mack-67-vets-helping-vets-at-veterans-antiquities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/09\/27\/chuck-mack-67-vets-helping-vets-at-veterans-antiquities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Mack \u201967 \u2013 Vets helping Vets at Veterans Antiquities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chuck Mack \u201967<\/strong> returned as a veteran of\u00a0the Viet Nam war when he was injured in 1969.\u00a0\u00a0He is a local businessman who owns Moe &amp; Johnny\u2019s Bar and Grill, a coffee\/bar\/restaurant in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>As a veteran, he\u00a0has learned firsthand the intricacies and roadblocks that veterans must navigate in order to obtain benefits and aid available to them.\u00a0 Chuck\u00a0is a veteran who has joined with other veterans to establish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteransantiquities.com\/\">Veterans Antiquities<\/a> \u2013 which has many focuses in aiding vets:\u00a0 \u201cto stand up for themselves, to advocate for their fellow vets &#8211; and to repurpose what&#8217;s been cast aside in the march toward progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Antiquities is a store that showcases work by veteran artists, and it teaches other veterans skills in creating art from repurposed materials.\u00a0 Chuck Mack and Veterans Antiquities works with other community organizations to build off each other\u2019s missions, in order to help veterans who need support and guidance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/veterans-antiquities-cropt1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6591\" title=\"veterans antiquities cropt\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/veterans-antiquities-cropt1-1024x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/veterans-antiquities-cropt1-1024x487.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/veterans-antiquities-cropt1-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/veterans-antiquities-cropt1.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuvo.net\/indianapolis\/veterans-antiquities-building-a-brotherhood\/Content?oid=2683610#.UkWG_hjD-Wh\">Click here<\/a> to read the Veterans Antiquities story in the Indianapolis <em>NUVO<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Mack \u201967 returned as a veteran of\u00a0the Viet Nam war when he was injured in 1969.\u00a0\u00a0He is a local businessman who owns Moe &amp; Johnny\u2019s Bar and Grill, a coffee\/bar\/restaurant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}