Syracuse, N.Y. - For the past 18 years, Matthew Withers and his wife Ginny have spent their Thanksgiving Day serving meals at the Rescue Mission alongside their two adult daughters, Emily and Caroline.

“We do it as a family,” Matthew said. “We get the true meaning of Thanksgiving out of the whole deal.”

For them, it’s an opportunity to give back to their community and to understand that there are many people who struggle to put food on the table not just during the holidays, but every day.

“There’s a whole other side of the world,” he said. “And to try to help those folks is what we wanted to instill in them.”

Matthew and Ginny Withers, who are both retired, said they noticed more clients coming in for food than they have ever seen in their nearly two decades of volunteering on Thanksg

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