Over 100 veterans tee off at Bear's Best golf classic

Check in with our Chris Rosenthal. So more than 100 people are scheduled to participate in this annual Veterans Golf Day Classic. It's called the Bears Best Annual Veterans Golf Day Classic. It's in Suwanee. And this is all an event, a fun event for not just veterans, but also active duty members of the military to get together and play some golf. So, hey, Chris, tell us what's happening out there. Yeah, hey, so yeah, about 150 golfers out there right now on the course. They've been out here since this morning. Actually, this morning they had some pretty exciting start to the day with some paratroopers dropping in to sort of kick things off here at the Bears Best Veterans Golf Classic here. This is the third annual tournament. that they have had here for the veterans and it's all for a good cause too so to raise money for Purple Heart Foundation and I have one of the organizers here I've got Vince. Vince who is himself a veteran army veteran Vietnam veteran thank you for your for your service sir and tell me about you know this tournament why why was it important for you to start this? Well, because obviously I'm a veteran myself for 25 years. And I know that, particularly here in Georgia, we have a huge number of veterans, and a lot of them are homeless, living under bridges sometimes. And so I contacted the president of the Purple Heart Association, and we worked together to organize it. And every year, this is the third year, and it gets bigger and better every time. We're helping more veterans. That's the big thing. Yeah, that's very big. Good cause of people having fun. I mean, tell me about the event. You had some great festivities this morning, huh? Oh, yeah. We wanted to have the parachute jump on year one, bad weather. Last year was terrible weather, and so this year we did have the parachute jump in lovely weather today, and we brought down one of the members who works here at Bear's Best, carried him down for his first jump. It was very exciting. Very exciting indeed. I think one of them had a flag coming down, so that was pretty amazing to watch there. It certainly was. We had the flag, we had smoke, and then we had our guy was jumped down on the ground. He made his first jump. Thank you. You know, all for a good cause. I mean, what does it mean to you when you come out here and you see all the golfers lined up, ready to go out? There's such a big turnout. Like you said, this has grown every year. Yeah, it certainly is. And we're raising more money every year and more wonderful sponsors and it's just a pleasure to help our veterans. That's what I like to do. And there's some raffles here too as well and a nice dinner as well. After the golf at 4 o'clock, 4.30, we're going to give them a prime rib dinner and then we're going to have a raffle where all the veterans are going to win something that come here today. It's very fortunate. Yeah, about 150 golfers and a lot of them, most of them veterans and servicemen Absolutely, yes, sir. Wonderful. I'll be out here today at the Bears Best and watch those golfers coming on in. They're out there on the course right now. You see the workers here doing the work, cleaning up the course here. But yeah, just really, really great event here for veterans and for a good cause. So back to you. All right, Chris. Sounds good. Looking forward to seeing this golf plastic as the day continues. And we know that a lot of celebrations are underway in our area to support. Veterans and, you know, honor them as well.