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Fraud-fighting experts will explore the top scams targeting veterans and military families in 2021.
The event titled âOperation Protect Veterans: On a mission to support Veteransâ will take place at 7 p.m.
Organizers said military veterans are twice as likely to be a target for scams. Con artists use fake veteransâ charities, service benefit buy-out schemes, bogus jobs scams and now the pandemic to steal money and identity. Every day, scammers invent new ways to defraud veterans. The goal of this web event is to educate and protect veterans and military families against the latest threats.
The event is open to all veterans and especially those with ties to Honor Flight. This includes veterans who have already participated in an Honor Flight, veterans who hope to experience an Honor Flight, guardians, airport volunteers and community members who support HFNEI and their mission.
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Mary K. Talbot
Special to The Journal
Tim Finnerty, 64, is an Army veteran who was introduced to martial arts during his service in Korea in 1967. He has continued to study for the past 43 years and shares his knowledge about Tai Chi and Qi Gong with an informal group of staff and clients of the VA Hospital in Providence. “It’s a holistic system of coordinated body posture, movement, breathing and meditation,” Finnerty says.
Pre-COVID, Tim would convene a group of about a dozen staff and medical center clients on the lawn of the hospital on Friday mornings to learn these Eastern practices that channel energy and movement to improve health and wellness.