President Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans, Redirects Funds Previously Spent on Housing Illegals.
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West Los Angeles, CALIFORMNIA!
Why on earth would we send any federal dollars to be “disbursed” in CA?
I’ve grown so cynical.
Our dads and their dads fought two of the bloodiest wars of the 20th C., and the overwhelming majority of them came home to build families, attend college, build homes, and become Boy Scout leaders, church elders, business owners, community volunteers, steadfast husbands and fathers. And where they could, they did it on the GI Bill. And they were silent as the grave about their war experience.
What has changed about war that has produced generations, now, of drug and alcohol-addicted, chronically unemployed, homeless vets?
What am I not taking into consideration?
The Jet Age for one…You could be in Afghanistan on Tuesday…Surrounded by
danger and the horrors of War…and back in Podunk,Indiana two Day later.
Also Nuclear Family is gone. You can longer afford a House on a low Middle Class
Income.
I applaud this move. Just gotta watch the $$$ trail.
P.S. My father-in-law was a company commander in four key battles in Europe, including Normandy and the Ardennes. He would have been about 23-25 years old over the course of his time serving.
He was proud of my service in the Air Force, but never once talked about the horrors of his enlistment. He only ever talked about the interesting sights of the German countryside.
might have to call them real soon
…Ardennes = Battle of the Bulge. Not to be confused with The Battle of The Ardennes in WWI.
This is amazing! This is the campus I have visited more than a dozen times over the past 10 years, on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, with a friend who went through the PTSD program there in 2011. He passed away suddenly just a month ago, but before he passed he was visiting the homeless vets who had *finally* been allowed on VA grounds just a couple of years ago after tremendous pressure was put on the VA. He would bring food and comfort, and would push them to talk to VA administrators to claim the benefits they were entitled to. Most of them don’t even know the benefits that are due to them!
We may not trust CA, but this is a federal program on federal land, and CA has a disproportional number of vets in need. And there is plenty of space there – the Dems had actually been leasing space to a private school and other entities (see article below). This is exactly where the first one needs to be.
https://westsidetoday.com/2024/09/08/federal-judge-orders-va-to-end-private-leases-expand-housing-for-homeless-veterans-on-west-la-campus/
LCD — Thanks for this! So glad to know about it.
The VA needs a complete overhaul…..
Retired and took 2 years for VA physical…..
VA did some dental work and gave (?) me some over the counter meds…..then sent me a bill….I refused to pay…..VA/IRS/govt took my tax refund…..
I live on the VA 50 mile line…..
and can’t get a blanket dental/medical…..
referral so I’m stuck with Medicare, Tricare, private insurance, and out of pocket coverage…..
20 years of service……23 years of VA eligibility…..
Things need to change……
My dad rarely talked about his service in the Air Force from 1947-1950. I knew that was in Berlin during the Berlin airlift in 1948 and a few other small details. Two of his older brothers one Navy and the other a paratrooper in the Army didn’t start telling us stories of their service during World War 2 until they were both in their late 80’s and 90’s a few years before they died. My HS biology teacher was a Marine attached to a Marine fighter squadron in the S. Pacific during WW2 and I learned his stories about his service because he a regular customer and a friend (and my youngest brother) of my dad’s Shell service station. I got talking to him one day when he was at my dad’s shop and he told me stories about his service as well. I miss all those old guys; they were the best. Even though I am not a combat vet of the Vietnam war I occasionally tell my kids stories about my service on the USS Kitty Hawk overseas at the end of that war in 1974 and 75.
geoff – It was a different time when men had loyalty and reverence for decency and patriotism.
I once worked with a Super Liberal asshole who was a veteran and did nothing but rail against all Republicans for their so-called mis-treatment of Vets.
I’d love to ask him: “What exactly did the Øbamboozler and Jackass Joe ever do for vets except treat them like shit and throw them out of housing to make room for illegal aliens!”