“We have your back here, not just overseas. I never met the man. But the important thing is to help. It’s the right thing to do.”

In the latter days of 2016’s autumn, a bunch of veterans — most members of the Berlin VFW Post 10732 in Berlin, Connecticut — got together to give an old former World War II United States Army soldier a hand. They painted his house, a modest ranch down the street from a school in the quiet New England suburb.

And not only did they slap on the pigment, they scraped, sanded and primed, too.

The 91-year-old veteran, who was 80 percent disabled after fighting in the Pacific (he also “took part in the surrender of Japan”) didn’t have to do a thing. Or pay a cent.

The labor was free of charge (obviously) but so were the materials — donated by a local outfit known as The John Boyle Company.

“I’m glad we learned about this and could help,” retired U.S. Army Colonel Gary Barwikowski told the Hartford Courant on Wednesday. “A lot of the older guys don’t say anything when they need help. This paint job is part of a bigger plan to do other projects like this.”

“The house really needed to be repainted. What we did was seal the outside and give him some time to take care of other issues. We stopped the debilitation of the exterior,” said Barwikowski. “We want to do more of this and team up with others. We don’t want to be a lone wolf. We all need to help our neighbor.”