Unemployed Vietnam veteran, helped by CBS6 viewers, may finally get help from VEC and last updated 2021-07-02 20:33:14-04 RICHMOND, Va. -- You may remember Ken Cook, whose story we brought you last month. Back then, when I asked him if he could speak to Commissioner Ellen Marie Hess on the Virginia Employment Commission, what would he tell her, colorfully responded, "Answer the damn phone! Get somebody that wants to actually work and get paid!" The Vietnam veteran's months-long frustration with the VEC had long since reached a boiling point. But his story touched a lot of viewers, one of whom set up a GoFundme account that raised over a thousand dollars.