Support Cornell’s Annual Car Show Benefiting Folds of Honor | Buying Local #67

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Speaker 1
we’ll get started. Welcome, everyone, to buying local on your host, Mike Marsland from Five Towers Media. Joined by a group today. So, a little bit of a different format. And what we’ve been doing, and, we’re going to be talking about the auto show that is put on each year by Cornell Auto Parts and, as well as for the buyer.

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Speaker 1
And then who is the recipient of the proceeds from that event? And, got some an interesting story to tell. Sounds like something. I’m really excited to hear the details. So while we go around, if you want to just go ahead and introduce yourself first and we’ll start there.

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Speaker 3
Yeah. My name is Ron passed. You know, I, I did 30 years government service, six years in the U.S. Army and 24 New York State Police, 18 of which in, special operations. And I live in Delaware, New York. Nice.

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Speaker 1
Casey Cornell right here from Greenfield. Owner Cornell’s auto parts. My Corvette general manager. When I was auto parts right here in Greenfield Center.

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Speaker 2
Shawn Wilcoxon, I am here, I guess, for three different ways. I am, operations director at performance industrial owner at Tony’s Tavern and Folds of Honor board member.

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Speaker 1
Very nice. So, you know, I think maybe let’s start with just talking about the auto show. Obviously, this is how many years we get to do it. Now, this is a fourth one, fourth year. So, just kind of the rundown on the auto show itself. Like what it is, what it does, why you do it. Well, we do it all for, charity.

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Speaker 1
You know, we are doing small things, for, like, the Franklin Community Center. The first one started out as. And then it kind of just grew. And if you want to do a different charity, to get back locally. But and just start as I get together, like, when we first started, we didn’t know if it was just going to be the employee showing up.

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Speaker 1
I mean, I think we ran out of food, like, we’re just like, oh, all the employees from car. Well, we said 20, 30 cars and we could just all hang out with company gathering. And then it literally blew up the first year. So second year, we started planning a little bit earlier, second year was tripled the size of the first year.

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Speaker 1
So and then last year, we raised a lot of money for a place of honor, but we had the right. So I said, let’s, let’s run it back. I think we can double what we raised last year, which is $10,500. And let’s let’s try hopefully. Fingers crossed. Nice sunny weather. And we get the cars and people who show up in as far as, I was thinking about this on the way down here.

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Speaker 1
As far as the fundraising aspect of what you guys do, how are you raising funds? Is it just through sponsorships? Do people, donate the funds that work? It’s helpful. So a lot of it comes from sponsorships. And then, you know, we charge for registration cars, all that goes to it. Food. All food goes towards it.

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Speaker 1
T shirts, we sell t shirts 5050. Which the last few years, people have been giving back the 5050 they wanted, they’ve given the whole thing. So, they come from all different, all different aspects of it. So very nice. Sponsorships have come up early this year. We there’s already been producing very well. We’ve got sponsors all the way up and northern New Hampshire, friends of ours from up there and sponsor this car show from their campground.

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Speaker 1
So it’s pretty cool. Yeah. And who are some of the folks that are sponsoring so far?

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Speaker 3
You know, we have.

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Speaker 1
Clear Stream campground, of course, Denny’s performance industrial. They always help show out for us. We have we need some Saratoga Camelot. Came on board, donated, lanyards. Yes. Novice is going to donate all t shirts. This clothing, Mariah, Jones with the chain goods and team realtor. She came on board party after truck.

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Speaker 1
She came on board. So we’re we’re definitely certain pretty pretty good. Nice, nice. And is there a cutoff for sponsors like, you get everybody in by a certain day? I like to have everybody in by March 31st. Okay. That way I get a ban on me with all those on and stuff like that. So gives me that.

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Speaker 1
Most of getting everything organized. Yet for the auction. And we, we, we.

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Speaker 2
Can take people’s money. Today

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Speaker 2
I was going to say yes somehow figured out a way to take the money that that might not make the band money, that the way that the other t are.

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Speaker 1
To be able to pay. And one of the details for the car show to just so we get that out there before I forget. So, it’s basically from 9 to 3. If there is rain in the forecast. May 3rd. Is the rain okay. Right here. Six two South Greenfield Road, Greenfield Center. And, yeah, from nine three.

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Speaker 1
Hopefully you get some good weather. We got good weather on right now. I’m really excited about that. Must be 60 degrees today.

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Speaker 2
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Even more even warmer tomorrow. Oh yeah. Yeah. You need it. Yeah. Yeah. I got snow banks in my house. They’re like ten feet tall right now.

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Speaker 2
I’m discouraged by the warm weather,

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Speaker 2
but because this is, Yeah. So it’s.

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Speaker 1
Oh, good thing you must have a winter hobby.

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Speaker 2
Snowmobile season ended for many, many groups today.

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Speaker 1
No, my winter hobby is climbing through snow banks. The Deepings. Yeah. That’s, not not very exciting for me, but. So, so why don’t we kind of get your story a little bit about your involvement with Folds of Honor? So moving and maybe just kind of talk about what they do, and, you know, I know that I believe, anyway, full of honors been and in no small part to what you guys been doing, a performance Industrial’s been doing other events that it’s really becoming more and more well known in this area specifically.

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Speaker 1
I mean, because until you guys started doing events for Folds of Honor, I had personally had not heard of them. But since then, obviously we hear about them all the time. So love to hear about, more about Folds of Honor and kind of your, your part in their story.

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Speaker 3
Absolutely. Again, my name is Ron passed, you know, and, my kids are participants in the Folds of Honor program. My daughter is still currently in her master’s, and they’re still helping her out with, you know, being a participant in the scholarships. Gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you for what you do. Because my children reap the benefits of it due to my disability.

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Speaker 1
Well, thank you. We appreciate.

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Unknown
You know, you’re coming into this comfort zone, are humbled and honored.

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Speaker 3
Give you the short version in light of, you know, the time frame we have here for this podcast, basically, I was in special operations in the state of New York. And, when the second plane hit at the World Trade Center, our team deployed. We were split up in, in two groups. One group flew down and the other group drove down.

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Speaker 3
I drove down, pretty Geary saying, just drive across the George Washington Bridge. And there was absolutely no vehicles. And you see a huge smoke plume to the south. Just felt like I was in a movie scene. Just eerie, surreal. Get down there. And, we started what we felt was going to be rescue efforts. And we worked diligently to try to rescue people.

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Speaker 3
Unfortunately, that did not happen. Jet fighters flying all over, a lot of commotion and all that. Our team ended up spending seven and a half months there, on the pile to do recovery efforts and sensitive security assignments. For, things I can’t really get into, but, you know, to protect the scene and some other things that were going on.

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Speaker 3
About a year after we started seeing health effects among first responders and, you know, and the civilian populace that live down there, frankly, which they did forgotten about as well. I’ve had some lingering skin effects and, and, just kind of, you know, shrugged it off, had, started to get about six sinus infections a year, which I never would get them.

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Speaker 3
So it really affected my system, my nasal passages, just really the chemicals that you were exposed to down there? Horrendous sleep. Pretty pretty much the worst camp fireman that you would ever want to put a human being in. Go through several years, I started to lose colleagues to the cancers, to 911 and, at near 15 after 911, which was, 2016, I started to have some breathing issues and I thought I was just, just had a bad day, went on a three mile run, and I felt it was felt really hard and I was at the professional athlete level to be on my team.

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Speaker 3
And a three mile run was nothing to do to a guy like me at that point. And, I just shrugged it off. The following day, I tried to run another three miles, at the Sue the Albany loop down where my office was, and just fell ill. Went to see my personal doctor, did a myriad of just general deep dive tests.

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Speaker 3
He felt it was my heart. And, the, the Cat scan came back that my heart was great. But on the periphery of the, the Cat scan, there was lung nodules, and it did, really maybe take a step back, like, hey, I’ve never smoked. I mean, you could it be a health? I knew immediately by losing a bunch of colleagues already that it was from 911.

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Speaker 3
Ended up, down in New York City. Found the top hole now just down there. Put me through another Cat scan and a Pet scan. And bottom line is, is he said, we got to get you in the surgery like yesterday because you you definitely got a lung disease. But, you know, you probably have lymphoma. Cancer.

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Speaker 3
Because all my lymph nodes were popping up hot on the on the Pet scan. So within a week, I was back down there at a, surgery. Surgery number one, they took a bunch of tissue samples, and, they validated my, lung disease from my lab. And, couldn’t rule out cancer, so they had to go in for a, a more invasive surgery.

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Speaker 3
A few weeks later to where they, took a quarter of my right lung out and all my lymph nodes because they were popping up pop for cancer. Ultimately, they ruled it out. They said I was the, the, the worst, inflammation case that I’ve ever seen in history at that hospital for my lungs.

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Speaker 1
So,

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Speaker 3
At that point, major surgeries back to back within a month and a disease, I had to make a decision. Do I stay in the state police? Which they would. It took care of me, or do I retired and see what retirement’s about? Because I had enough time to retire. And I heard this. I heard retirement pretty good.

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Speaker 1
But,

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Speaker 3
To be straight up, I was not ready to retire. You know, I was 45 years old, living the dream at the tip of the spear, saving lives daily, with my team and, I still enjoyed my job and giving back and helping others. So, but my doctors kept telling me we don’t know how long you’re going to live.

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Speaker 3
And with me analyzing all the colleagues at Harvard, he lost. I had to make a decision to, you know, to do what’s best for number one, the agency. Because I can’t be in command of a scene and make a bad decision because I’m not breathing right. And I’m not thinking straight. So I, I decided to retire, and then, it was a tough, really, really tough transition when you’re used to, doing what I did, it really becomes your identity.

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Speaker 3
I mean, and you get used to your adrenaline and and, the go, go, go part of it and to go to a screeching halt, it’s like a light switch. It goes off. So basically, I went through, two years of darkness, basically to transition, although I was employed, a buddy of mine from the FBI, got me a job as a government contractor.

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Speaker 3
I ran international law enforcement program. Really great job.

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Speaker 2
That’s a research.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that’s what I was going to do. What? I was all right.

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Speaker 3
So.

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Speaker 3
But all the while, it wasn’t what I used to do, you know, although I was still helping out others that were, you know, supporting special operations out worldwide. Mean, being being able to enter a room and take a bad guy down anymore. It was hard adjustment. So I finally, you know, had to figure out, like, what?

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Speaker 3
What can I do to better myself, with my health, to kind of turn this around because all the doctors could provide me in the traditional medical system was an inhaler. And, you know, a steroidal pill, and that was it way. That’s it. We just don’t know. So I started to, do some investigation online. I’ve always been the epitome of health and always in the supplements and holistic stuff like meditation and, you know, granola type stuff.

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Speaker 3
And, but I also, you know, needed I always thought, like, what about these charities? They’re they’re out there advertising. Like, I’m the perfect example of a case. So I started look up health and wellness charities to kind of give me the best doctors I need for my personal condition. And, ultimately, I found a couple who campaign was the first one.

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Speaker 3
They took me under their wings and, got me to some of the best doctors on the planet, and, help me out with my PTSD brain treatments and, you know, help give you the doctors to kind of balance out and create homeostasis in my body, to create a healing process. Additionally, while this is happening, again, I lost a lot of salary when, you know, I was make pretty good money in the state police.

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Speaker 3
At my level, when you retire, it’s not the same amount of money. And, you know, it it just was very difficult at the time. And I started looking up. That’s my, my twins were about to go to college. Look it up. Scholarship scholarships for my kids. And I came across Folds of Honor, and, I reached out and, and, you know, the New York, branch, took me under our wings and my kids under the wings applied and, we got them through four years of college, and my my daughter stone her master’s.

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Speaker 3
So, you know, they they’ve been very helpful to take the financial burden off of number one, my kids and myself, because I feel an obligation to take care of them as well. So for, for me to, you know, help out folds of honor to help the others. Like, heck yeah. You know, tell my story to the to, you know, get some more funding to help the kids of the same old and fallen military and or first responder any day, all day.

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Speaker 3
Absolutely. So, yeah, that that’s basically it. You know, I, I, pretty much did every treatment on the planet, and the last big worm was stem cells. And as a kind of stem cells, which, come from umbilical cords and medical waste, basically, you know, they they throw that stuff out after birth to a guy like me that’s cold.

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Speaker 3
Those cells are processed. And ultimately I end up having seven treatments and in about two years and, pretty much reverse my, my lung disease for, you know, three years.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Well, that was going to be my question is, do you still have ongoing battles as far as your health goes outside of like, normal aging?

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Speaker 3
I’m not like I used to be. I am pretty much optimized the best I can be for the condition. You know, I’ve been through it also affects your brain. I told you, I, you know, I had some brain stuff. Go on. When you’re exposed, it’s chemicals. But also beyond the World Trade Center. You know, 18 years on call, losing four teammates.

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Speaker 3
Shootings and stuff like that, that you’re around the part of, affects, you know, you got, you know, PTSD there. So, I still am in prevention mode of that stuff. I have everything under control. And that is a result of, the, the holistic means and treatments. You know, the hippies were right.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, they were freaking right.

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Speaker 3
You know, you guys, right?

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Speaker 3
Yeah. So, yeah, I put it in for for anybody. You disabled vets and first responders out there. It’s about prevention. It’s about getting getting control what your condition is, and then it’s about prevention. So I, I take a myriad of supplements daily and, you know, do do certain workouts and meditations and, and go to certain doctors to prevent this from flaring back up and, you know, to prolong my life.

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Speaker 3
Now, I made a pact. You know, you know, I tell my kids this, I’m going to be the first nine, 11 disabled responder to live to 100. Prove that you can overcome the adversity and still win this. And I’m not going to let the terrorists kill me. And I’ll leave it at this. The World Trade Center, 911 this year will be the 25th year.

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Speaker 3
It is the longest active killing terrorist event in history. It is still killing to this day. Somebody, you know, like there was a colleague, last week from the state police that died. So, just imagine all the NYPD, the FDNY, the civilian populace, 70,000 kids, kids that died from disease. So just keep that, you know, in the back of your head of, the amount of people that died on the day.

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Speaker 3
Fast forward 25 years, the amount of people that died, after has now surpassed, you know, the amount of people that died the day of martyr. So, I love help helping and guiding and 11, responders that have sicknesses. I get calls from all over the country now and around the world. A lot of the burn pits, the military burn fat people.

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Speaker 3
Same thing. You’re exposed to all those chemicals and stuff. They’re having the same disease. So I guide them through, a toolbox approach. You know, not one treatment’s going to be, you know, work. You know, you got to have a combination of your your screwdriver, your hand, your hammer, your wrench, and using that collectively to, to create a healing process in your body.

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Speaker 3
So that’s that’s what my winning recipe is. And I kind of pass that on to the same folks to kind of guide them and get them to the right holistic doctors around the world.

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Speaker 2
So I just want to take a step back and just say thank you again for not only fighting for us, but now fighting for us and fighting for those who continue to fight for us. Ron, just explain what Full Diviner did, but I’ll just take a step back and start with what Full Diviner is and, you know, maybe tell the story so that they can understand.

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Speaker 2
But Boards of Honor start a national organization. And if you haven’t heard of it, go online, you know, see the video about it. But it was about, somebody who was on a plane. Why can’t doctor Deborah Ben Ruby, Lieutenant general, is on a plane. Plane landed and fallen soldier had to be, let off the plane first.

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Speaker 2
And in the moment, he he wrote a book about it. And it’s just so touching that, you know, that moment of the fallen soldier. Somebody dies fighting for us to have the freedoms that we have. It just did something to him, and he started full divine. I started from it. And then what he talked about was it’s, you know, that person is gone, but their family still has to go on.

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Speaker 2
Their wife still has to go on, their mother, brothers, sisters, and they still have to go on. He wanted to make sure that the legacy of that person that died for us or is permanently disabled for us, goes on, and that we support them. So Folds of Honor is a national organization. New York State has a chapter now.

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Speaker 2
I wasn’t on the original, chapter. Tom, you look on our board. President got involved with it. I got a chance to. Carter. I was on food service. Got a chance to. Carter. The first concert, local school level. And I heard a story from a Gold Star mother and never look back. I said, how do I get involved?

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Speaker 2
How do I help? So we raise funds to give scholarships to military and first responders that are either disabled or paid the ultimate sacrifice to die for us. So your children have had a chance to receive scholarships every year that they’ve gone to school. Because of your battle and because of your fight, because when you continue to do for us today.

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Speaker 2
And so the fact that we’re sitting here in a small town in upstate New York with a private business owner that’s willing to say that, you know, because of his business, because of that support. You know, last year you sent two people to college career, like over, over two people because you raised the money with two scholarships. And now this year, we’re wanting to double.

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Speaker 2
That’s for scholarships. Small town upstate New York. That’s amazing. Just I mean, it’s it’s amazing. It’s honestly amazing. The fact that you give back the fact that you’re going to be here speaking on that day to connect with others so that who knows who’s going to be in that crowd that day? Like, what if it’s a somebody that’s battling this that might have a chance to connect with Robert because he’s here, give them back, to raise money for this.

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Speaker 2
And so it’s it makes me emotional to hear about it, to talk about it. But I believe in and the world that we live in today, the battle that’s going on right now, you know, there’s nothing more important to then remember that people are out there fighting for our freedoms, fighting for that time that we have, and giving back.

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Speaker 2
And so thank you very much. And Folds of Honor, thank you very much. Because, like anything, we’re competitive people too, and we want to fulfill every single scholarship request in New York because of 911, because of the fact that we live in New York State, and it’s our responsibility. So New York State first, we at times don’t fulfill a New York State every year in the amount of them that are applied for.

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Speaker 2
We don’t have the funds to fulfill them. Every year, more and more every year, with 911 continuing to happen and first responders being such a large group on top of military, our goal is to fulfill every one of those applications. And it’s with all this help that we are going to, you know, drive our goal to get there.

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Speaker 1
So, so how can they apply for this.

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Speaker 2
Funded honor, talk we’ll talk about org. I would say two things. Go on apply. But, you know, they can contact you the times like do they contact from and contact me. We’re out there on social media. Our names, our phone numbers. It’s always when you apply. I tell everybody, contact one of us. Let us send national word.

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Speaker 2
This is somebody we know. They’re from our backyard. If you’re not from our backyard, you’re from downstate or whatever. Somehow you see this. Contact one of us because we want to hear from you, want to hear your story. We want to we want to fight on behalf of you to get that scholarship. No one doesn’t deserve it. But the sad fact is, is that we don’t have enough to give to every single one.

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Speaker 2
Right. So there’s not a single not deserving person, but National has to make the hard choice. And now I will say that National doesn’t just say if it wasn’t raised in New York, you can’t get it. National will do everything they can to take funds from wherever they can, to try to fulfill everyone national. So it’s not like if we don’t raise it here, there’s no chance but reach out to us with folds of honor.

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Speaker 2
No.

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Speaker 1
Amazing. I didn’t realize, I should say. I didn’t realize it didn’t occur to me or I hadn’t, thought about the fact that 911 is still ongoing. Right? Like people are still suffering, but, like, I mean, we talk about it. We hear about, you know, every year we all say celebrate, but we recognize the anniversary of it. But, you know, you don’t think about all the people that are still dealing with it.

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Speaker 1
It’s a heavy price to pay.

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Speaker 3
It’s the real deal. Yeah. And it’s it’s truly affecting families. Still, I lost the close by a minute. Eight months ago to, cancer. Yeah. Local up here, actually. Trooper. Yeah. So, and in regards to, filling out the application for Folds of Honor, it’s pretty simple, actually. Online. Yeah. So anybody out there, real simple process.

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Speaker 3
Go online and then contact, you know, the New York representatives, they get national award.

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Speaker 2
And Folds of Honor. New York has a specific spot on the website from the National. What I’m saying, and all of our name on the board members names. And I have just say the board members are all unpaid. They’re all from, you know, here to Albany, local people. We have a group of people that we love and have a lot of fun, you know, having these events and celebrating those that fought for us and that’s, you know, an opportunity and like that hardship to hear, you know, we always want to be, you know, connected to.

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Speaker 2
So you got to hear that story because of the why, you know, what’s the why behind it. But once we, you know, we make sure people know the why. We also like to bring a joy and laughter and fun. You know, I’m sure there’s going to be lots of laughter and lots of smiles here at the car show.

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Speaker 2
I mean, I don’t know people from Greenfield. They’ve known to us, you know, busting chops, you know, tell some good stories, you know, cook some good food, like you’re going to you’re going to have some laughter here. And you know what it’s all about remembering that the reason why we’re doing this, so that we have the opportunity to bring cars here to walk around and look, you know, it’s because of the freedoms that are fought for and the price that’s paid.

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Speaker 2
And it’s, you know, it’s just so important to never forget that freedom is not free. Freedom is fought for and paid for, by people like Ron.

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Speaker 1
Absolutely. Well, on behalf of our listeners and viewers, thank you for your service. Absolutely. And sacrifices even now, and your family for that matter. And everyone that serves, thanks, courthouse for putting on the the car show here. I May 2nd, May 2nd.

00;27;25;28 – 00;27;29;10
Speaker 2
I just say I’m sorry. And rain date May 30th.

00;27;29;10 – 00;27;45;12
Speaker 1
I’m sorry. Yeah. And thanks. Performance industrial and tennis tavern as well for all the work that you guys are doing as well, helping promote this and that and the other work that you do. I mean, you guys do a ton. All of you guys do a ton of stuff in the community to help, uplift our community and and help those that serve us.

00;27;45;12 – 00;27;48;20
Speaker 2
So it’s our pleasure for us to be a part.

00;27;48;23 – 00;27;59;28
Speaker 1
And thanks, everybody for listening. Of course. You can find this episode, another episode of Buying Local about us, as well as listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Rumble, and YouTube. Thanks, everybody. Thanks.