GoFundMe raises more than $40K for 70-year-old Milwaukee veteran after viral TikTok

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — After years of military service, and long shifts to make ends meet, a Milwaukee veteran is now receiving support from people across the country.

For 12 years, Ronald Edmonds’ life was spent in the Navy.

“I was an E6 back in that day,” said Edmonds. “In Nam, we’d sit about 50 miles off the shore and ships that were damaged would come off and we’d weld them up, repair them, do whatever we had to do to get them fixed.”

Decades later, Edmonds did what millions of veterans do after serving their country — he went back to work…

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