Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, On Thursday, the same day Pope Francis will address a joint session of Congress in Washington, “We the People” will be holding a State of Emergency Town Hall at Skid Row – from 12 noon to 4 o’clock, at 6th Street and Gladys Park, 808 E. 5th St., downtown Los Angeles — followed by a … Read More

Former Santa Monica City Counciloman Bobby Shriver, who is not a Veteran, sends emails under the illusory “bobby@veteranadvocate.org.” To attend next Monday evening’s 7 o’clock event, “We Own It. What Do We Want on It?” program at the Santa Monica Civic Center, a one must RSVP to contact@veteranadvocate.org, which is linked to www.vatherightway.org The “We Own It” property that Mr. Shriver indicates … Read More

“We the People” will hold a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 12 noon to 4, at downtown Skid Row, 808 E. 6th St. The Town Hall will include a Search and Rescue crusade to find homeless Veterans in the area and bus them to the Los Angeles VA for humanitarian housing and care. Nearly a month ago, we asked the HOK … Read More

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, What a truthful title on the accompanying  expose` by Veterans advocate John Aaron: “UCLA Baseball team “steals” veterans’ Home – Veterans still homeless.” Attached are photos taken this morning as UCLA completely rebuilt its baseball grounds while zero homeless Veterans are brought “Home” onto these sacred grounds.  Is this the example that UCLA teaches to its … Read More

Aug. 8, 2015 Martha Groves, Reporter, Los Angeles Times. Dear Martha, Three minutes after I sent you an e-mail this morning respectfully requesting that you consider reporting on a worthy solution of providing emergency humanitarian housing at the Los Angeles VA for thousands of war-injured homeless Veterans, you fired back. You  falsely accused me of criticizing whatever, and “to come up with a … Read More

Aug. 5, 2015 Mark Z. Barabak Los Angeles Times “journalist” “Trump is the candidate everyone can name, and everyone has a name for him” Re:  Your unwarranted, malicious, bigoted assault on Donald Trump Well, you succeeded in lowering the bar of professional journalism, below where the Los Angeles Times has heretofore.  The Times is the lowest when it comes to politicizing … Read More

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans,  Saturday is the fifth annual Veterans Summer Celebration & Picnic. We are paying special tribute to our Vietnam War Veterans — 40th anniversary of the end of the war. Please attend. Meet legendary combat pilot and ex-POW of the Vietnam War, Col. Ken Hughey (USAF, Ret.). He will be our keynote speaker and will hold a book signing about his memoirs “Outlaw … Read More

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, I have attached an invitation (VA Community Meetings Flyer) to three public VA community meetings this week and one next week. It is important for all Veterans to attend these meetings, not only to hear what the VA has to say, and what the community “stakeholders” have to say, but what each Veteran has … Read More

Second of two parts Re “Vietnam War Veterans Have Found the Enemy” VA Secretary Robert McDonald has proven to be untrustworthy. Those who have agreed to meet with him are a friend of the enemy as well as an enemy of disabled homeless Veterans. In the ACLU lawsuit that generated the federal judgment, Vietnam Veterans of America was one of … Read More

First of two parts President Obama soon will roll out the White House’s red carpet to greet Vietnam’s Communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong. What is being swept under America’s dirty-secrets carpet is that Robert A. McDonald, his Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), has refused to approve and support emergency humanitarian housing and care at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home … Read More