Every May for the last six years, a local man and his family have helped over 90 student veterans and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets struggling with financial hardship at California State University–Fullerton with scholarships started through the Vets and Cadets Endowed Scholarship Award.
The vet scholarship program was established in late 2017 by Gregory Wirzbicki and his family after a friend, Marine veteran Frank Greer, passed away that year. Wirzbicki said he wanted to find a way to honor his late friend by helping other troops and veterans in need.
“[Americans] wouldn’t have the kind of freedom we have, the kind of life we have, without our veterans,” Wirzbicki told The Epoch Times. “We could never repay what [veterans] have done for us.”…