Soldiers, families, and community members gathered to celebrate the 251st birthday of the United States Army, honoring more than two and a half centuries of military service and the historic bond between the U.S. and its Italian hosts.
Soldiers, families, and community members gathered to celebrate the 251st birthday of the United States Army, honoring more than two and a half centuries of military service and the historic bond between the U.S. and its Italian hosts.
Soldiers, families, and community members gathered to celebrate the 251st birthday of the United States Army, honoring more than two and a half centuries of military service and the historic bond between the U.S. and its Italian hosts.
VICENZA, Italy – Bill Murphy, U.S. military veteran and Lions Club member, accepts a box of donated glasses from Maj. Katherine L. Herron, chief of optometry, and Sgt. Elsa A. Thompson during the June 4 eyeglass donation handoff at the U.S. Army Health Clinic Vicenza.
VICENZA, Italy – A long-standing partnership between the optometry team at the U.S. Army Health Clinic in Vicenza, local veterans and the Lions Club of Villafranca Verona continues to make a global impact by providing prescription eyeglasses to underserved communities around the world. The most recent collection handoff took place June 4, marking another milestone in a collaboration that has improved thousands of lives over the past two decades.
The initiative began inside the Vicenza Optometry Clinic, where host nation optician Roberto Santochi, now in his 30th year of service, first recognized the potential of recycling unused prescription glasses.
“We started to get old prescription glasses donations from patients about 25 years...
