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Once the state’s largest, VFW post hopes to survive by selling property

Hedrick-Rhodes VFW Post 5206 members Bill Manke, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, and Desert Storm veterans Ed Scrivenak and Jim Young pose in front of the VFW insignia and tributes to the two Navy sailors for which it’s named.

By Bill Moss, Published: September 8, 2020

Jim Young remembers one day, when he was 6 or 7, as he sat at his grandfather’s diner on Asheville Highway, the Smokehouse. A young veteran who was obviously down on his luck walked in and sat down at a table. Young’s grandfather, Red Lemons, fixed the stranger a ribeye steak, baked potato and tossed salad.

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