I can answer that! My brother and my husband belong to the VVA and just spent the last week guarding the traveling wall and helping people find their loved one's name on it. My brother has set up events at the local Veteran's Hall (Samurai Sword Display and sales, etc) in order to help the Hall raise money. My husband has offered his time and assistance any time he can to give rides or whatever to the vets who need help. We have taken Thanksgiving dinner down to a fellow who lived outside under a staircase for years but died a year ago. I spent hours putting together some old papers from WWII that had fallen into little pieces with age so that they could be retyped for my uncle. It turned out they were the old rosters and lists of when each person was wounded or killed. I also pieced back together a story about the Battle at Chambois, France that gave a blow by blow description of what my uncle and his unit went through there. Some of the paper was no bigger then a 1/2 inch, but I somehow managed to salvage the whole thing for him.
When my uncle came back from Europe he carried with him a bag full of momentos (which I can't say what they were) and he spent years finding the guys who were sent back wounded so that each could have a momento. My dad spent years trying to find a shipmate who had loaned him a dollar so that he could give it back.
But, in answer to your question, everyone here is trying to do something positive for Mr. Northcut. Everyone here spends time making a better day for the rest of us just because they are here. Every person here, I know, does what they feel they are able to do and it is not up to you or me to judge that.