Vets' advocate Vineyard to be honored despite keeping low profile about work - pressofAtlanticCity.com: Egg Harbor Township

Vets' advocate Vineyard to be honored despite keeping low profile about work

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Fred Vineyard, who will receive the coveted Amvets Silver Helmet award in April, posed with his wife, Sandy, at Charlie's Restaurant in Somers Point, holding a congratulatory letter about his honor that she hung up at her office. Photo by Braden Campbell

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Amvets Silver Helmet award winner Fred Vineyard, left, talked with fellow Amvets Post 911 member Robert 'Uncle Woody' Woods at the bar at Charlie's Restaurant in Somers Point. 'Fred's an organizer,' Woods said. 'He gets people together and makes things happen. ... He takes the initiative but everybody follows him, because they know it's going to get done.' Photo by Braden Campbell