A story in the national The American Legion online magazine brings a Mystic Island man’s mission to full light in the 10th year of his work to raise money helping kids who need costly organ transplants.

“Lenny Hart, a U.S. Army combat infantry veteran of the Vietnam War, chokes back tears as he begins to explain how and why his American Legion mission over the last decade has been to raise money for the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA),” wrote interviewer Jeff Stoffer.