“What I found was that there weren’t any organizations that do one-on-one relationship building and caring trips that are faith-based.” “There are a lot of great organizations that do group events for veterans,” McCoy says. McCoy wanted to create a program that focused on developing a bond between a volunteer and a veteran. He is not a veteran, but he grew up with a respect for the military since his father was a World War II, D-Day veteran.
McCoy was inspired to do something after he saw a television program about an organization taking veterans fishing. McCoy, a Pineville resident, had founded Hook Line & Heroes, a faith-based nonprofit, in 2017. Boye met Allan McCoy last year through a local chapter meeting of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. He seldom left the house except for work as a graphic artist or to walk his dog. For decades since that incident, harrowing experiences in Vietnam left him unable to relax or find fulfilling recreational activities. As a result of that day, he uses a cane to compensate for the partial loss of muscle tone in one leg.īut it was post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI) - a term many people use today instead of post-traumatic stress disorder - that limited Boye’s enjoyment of life. Both survived, and Boye was honorably discharged and awarded the Purple Heart. The two soldiers were medevacked to a nearby M.A.S.H. About 40 to 50 pieces of shrapnel entered Boye’s body. The point man missed a tripwire booby trap, which set off a grenade. One day in August 1970, he and a point man were leading the troops down a trail near a small village. Army with the 23rd Infantry for three months during the Vietnam War.
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