WASHINGTON — Adam Evans, a retired Air Force master sergeant, said he receives more than a dozen emails each week from veterans groups clamoring for his membership. Evans, 55, does not bother to open the invitations. “I’m not about to join a local post, drink stale beer and talk about stories from the past,” said Evans, who worked on intelligence systems and served for 20 years with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Once popular gathering spots and community hubs, many local posts have fallen into disrepair or closed as participation from younger generations drops and shows scant signs of a turnaround.

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