Dryhootch Expanding Services to Waukesha County Veterans

A group of veterans is coming together to help others who have served by providing peer mentoring services and support groups for military men and women as they readjust to civilian life.

Dryhootch is partnering with Easter Seals to bring a Forward Operating Base to Waukesha. The Waukesha Dryhootch location is located at the Easter Seals building at 505 Northview Road. The location is open for any veterans between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. 

Bob Curry, president of Dryhootch, knows all too well the pain of adjusting and suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. As a Vietnam veteran, Curry didn’t get the help he needed. Curry was driving drunk one day when he hit and killed a motorcyclist.

He was found not guilty by mental disease and when he was released from treatment, he decided to help other veterans who would be returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. He helped open Dryhootch, a non-profit coffee shop in downtown Milwaukee that helps returning military members and their families.

“I started having my own issues with PTSD and addiction,” Curry said. “After that journey, meeting with some other Vietnam vets, these wars were starting at that point. We decided that this generation needed more help than we had gotten. We didn’t want to let them go through the same problems.”