POSTED: 1:22 pm EDT August 3, 2006
UPDATED: 1:28 pm EDT August 3, 2006
BUFFALO, N.Y. – An Iraq war veteran who lost an arm and leg in a roadside bombing was mugged during a night out from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, according to an Associated Press report.
Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers, 27, and his wife were attacked and robbed as they left a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. on July 22.
The Marine from western New York was dining out while finishing up rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
As they left the restaurant, five men approached them and asked for a cigarette.
Denise Beyers told The Buffalo News they gave the men a cigarette – but then the men grabbed her purse, kicked her and knocked the couple to the ground.
The thieves made off with $500 just wired to them by a relative.
Mark Beyers expects to be back home in the Buffalo area this weekend. His family is planning a fundraiser for him on Aug. 12.
http://www.local6.com/spotlight/9623442/detail.html
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make a donation for his fundraiser
Alden State Bank, PO Box 238, attention Debbie Zimmerman, 13216 Broadway, Alden, NY 14004. Checks should be made out to the VFW Ladies Auxiliary 31280, with the notation Mark Beyers on the memo line. For information on the fundraiser, call Nancy O’Hara at 937-6785.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...04/6069490.asp
I’ve spoken to Ms O’Hara (716-937-6785)because I was wanting to know if they accept paypal. They do not and this is the address to send it to.
Alden State Bank
P.O. Box 238
Alden, NY 14004
Checks should be made out to VFW Ladies Auxiliary #3180 and written in the memo it should say “Mark Beyers benefit”
Donate if you care to, this guy served his country honorably and lost his limbs in the process, then was robbed of his money. <- I know this part is a repost, but I thought I should provide some background.
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i saw this on the news yesterday…seriously people are so messed up.
I think the sentence for committing any crime against a veteran (retired, active, disabled, whatever) should be to send them to the middle east…unarmed with no armor. There has been violence there since the beginning of time, so this could be a perfect sentence.
those particular scumbags should get their limbs chopped off, stuff their pockets with “money” and wheeled into Harlem. (either the 'hood in NYC or the middle of the street here, doesn’t really matter to me. haha)