Morley Proctor, the spouse of a sailor, joined dozens of other military family members on a recent afternoon at the food pantry inside the Armed Services YMCA in Virginia Beach.
“I’ve got a few little breakfast items and a couple of canned goods and some rice and little pastas and stuff to help fill the gap of what I don’t have in the house right now,” Proctor said.
The couple recently moved from Tennessee, and their budget is tight. Her husband received a paycheck Oct. 15, but that doesn’t remove the anxiety the couple has experienced since the federal budget shutdown began. She said she’s started making deliveries for DoorDash…