Veterans find connection over coffee, pancakes and bacon
Wayne Bolinger, left, and Jurgen Hakert pose for a portrait during weekly breakfast Thursday morning at the VFW Post 2469. Hakert, an Air Force veteran, worked on Bolinger's ranch in high school. The two stayed connected through the VFW – Bollinger served in the Army during the Vietnam War.
BUFFALO - On Thursday mornings, there's no livelier place to be than Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4969 in Buffalo. The coffee is brewing and pancakes and bacon are on the stove before sunrise. Veterans representing nearly every branch of the U.S. military come for the breakfast, and they stay for the camaraderie.
"It's just a tight-knit gathering of folks that have experiences in common," said Jurgen Hakert, who served in the Air Force for 23 years.
At the VFW, every member is, as the name suggests, a veteran of a foreign war, meaning they've been exposed to combat or overseas hostilities, Ha...
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