Our hard work to stop the Veterans Park Conservancy’s attempt to build a public park on Veterans property is now beginning to pay off.

I received word from Rees Lloyd, the prominent civil rights attorney and past Commander of District 21 of the California American Legion, that the Resolution his District 21 submitted on behalf of all Veterans was unanimously approved within the last days.

I am waiting to receive th­e final signed document, but it can be summarized in the following paragraph.

What it says is the California American Legion should not endorse any use of the property at the Veterans Home Land which is not for the “sole purpose of providing Veterans a place to heal from war.” The Resolution essentially states that the Legion should not support “any use” that is not for Veterans, and this will help lead toward stopping all who are on this property in violation of the Deed of 1888.

Let us rejoice in this victory, but not get complacent. We still have a lot of work ahead and we must continue the fight until everything is legally in concurrence with the Deed.

Mr. Lloyd is an outstanding attorney, Veterans advocate, and an American patriot.

His Background

For 20 years, he worked with Cesar Chavez. You can feel comforted in knowing that Rees is a Godsend as we all know how much work has been done heretofore, but to little avail. But he took over and accomplished a very major victory for all Veterans now and future generations of Veterans.

I can assure you that Rees worked tirelessly for three days to get this Resolution approved, because VPC was trying desperately through intermediaries to table and essentially kill this Resolution. However, the VPC group had never encountered the likes of Mr. Lloyd before, and he let them know that there’s a new sheriff in town.

We look forward to Rees’s continued support to eventually cancel and negate all exiting leases and agreements and make the Declaration of Enforcement an Amendment to the Deed of 1888.

Thinking Large

We must also begin working toward a Master Plan that will make the L.A. Veterans Home the finest healthcare facility in the world for the world's greatest defenders of freedom and liberty.

Thanks also to Gil Flores, and Willie Galavan, the California State Commander of the American GI Forum, for approving a Resolution last week supporting our Sunday rallies to “Save Our Veterans Land” and endorsing the “Declaration of Enforcement.”

The American Legion has an estimated 160,000 statewide members, and the California American GI Forum has approximately 5,500 statewide members.

This is a dramatic increase in just one week when we were consistently called a “certain minority” and “dissidents” by both the VA and VPC.

Thanks for all your loyal dedication. Keep on soldiering, as we've still got a lot of battles to be fought and won.