By, Dana Nichols
COPPEROPOLIS - It's not easy to start a new Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Yet, a small band of military veterans in Copperopolis is trying to do just that. For more than a year, they've been seeking to muster the 35 combat veterans required to form a new post.
After getting 30 together, a few prospective members had changes of heart.
Right now, the group has 26 members, said Al Gilbert, a Navy veteran serving as the prospective post's commander.
"We are still close," Gilbert said.
Whether the Copperopolis group ultimately succeeds is a struggle of love versus demographics and possibly a few internal demons.
The love is easy to see. Charity Maness, a writer living in Copperopolis, in summer 2010 renewed a dormant effort to form a VFW post because she wanted her son, Marine Corps Sgt. Chris Maness, to have a place to be with fellow combat veterans when he returned from service in Cuba, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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