The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLA) posted the Master Plan for the West Los Angeles (WLA) campus, which includes plans to expand the homeless program by renovating buildings on the historic campus.
There are 10,000 members of the American Legion in Los Angeles County and 20,000 homeless Veterans in Los Angeles County. Outnumbered 2-to-1, the American Legion still chooses to side with VA land policies that keep our homeless and disadvantaged Veterans from living in their rightful and legal “Home.”
For two-and-a-half years, fellow Veterans in Los Angeles and around the country have repeatedly written you and respectfully requested that you make major changes at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home.
I always admired the American Legion while growing up on a farm in central Indiana. Maybe it was just the good old Hoosier upbringing and patriotism of Legionnaires, but they were always admired and considered honorable Veterans and Citizens.
Everyone who serves in the U.S. Military takes an Oath to defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Rarely does our Military have a problem finding the foreign enemy.
There was a time when America took seriously its responsibility to incarcerate those who inflicted harm upon our society. In addition, America also took responsibility to provide our Military Veterans with proper care and services. Today, it’s the complete opposite
HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Remember all those columns I wrote back in the early 2000s when our local veterans were fighting to keep their gym – their lifeline – open at Sepulveda VA, and they won the fight? That was Steve Palmer. Remember every year when I asked you for donations so many of [...]
After nearly three years of battling VA bureaucrats, a wealthy homeowner group, and complicit politicians over the abuse and misappropriation of Veterans property, the Veterans Revolution has fundamentally brought an end to the “homeless Veteran” problem, as we know it in Los Angeles County. By Robert L. Rosebrock That’s right! This shameful exploitation of “homeless [...]
Veterans helping Veterans and the VA and LA Cops making veterans’ lives a deeper hell.Robert Rosebrock, Director, Old Veterans Guard, writes letter to General Eric K. Shinseki, Sec. of Dept of Veterans Affairs, and a LA Times columnist standing up for veterans. Marine (at left) is a homeless Veteran who was recently arrested by the Los Angeles Police [...]
Why is one hero still forgotten? By Dave Culmer As we honor this day in tribute to those Sailors, Solders, and Marines lost sixty nine years ago at Pearl Harbor on this day, try to remember what it must have been like for those brave military Souls who desperately and vainly fought for their lives [...]
They’re not even in the same league By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer When it comes to Congressional … uh-hum … “ethics,” or lack thereof, what U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel was recently charged with, and convicted of, isn’t even close when compared to the abuse of power that U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman has committed as [...]
Pam Murphy, the widow of Audie Murphy, was involved in the Sepulveda VA hospital and care center over the course of 35 years, treating every veteran who visited the facility as if they were a VIP. Pam Murphy died last week at the age of 90
The Veterans and their supporters are happy to announce, that on April 8, 2010, the Republican Party of Los Angeles County (RPLAC) joined the Coalition of Opponents to the Sepulveda VA Leases between developers New Directions and A Community of Friends and their proposed conversion of medical buildings 4 and 5 into a 149 unit apartment complex.
ACLU/SC Sues Veteran’s Affairs Department for Denying Free Speech Rights to Veteran LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the Veteran’s Administration today for denying a 67-year-old Army veteran his free-speech right to protest the agency’s failure to use part of its property in west Los Angeles for the [...]
A Dirt-Cheap and Dirty Scam Over the years, Ralph Tillman, the Director of Asset Management for the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, has facilitated numerous deals with Veterans property for the benefit of “non-profit,” non-Veteran organizations that include giving away a billion-dollar parcel, rent free, and leasing another for a $1 a year for [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010 100th Consecutive Sunday Rally to “Save Our Veterans Land” plus a major Press Conference Protest Rally / 1:00 – 4:00 PM Press Conference: 2:30 PM Major Announcements by the “Old Veterans Guard” Rebuilding and Transforming This Sacred Land into a “21st Century” Veterans Home American Military Veterans in their 60s, 70s [...]
Vets Say They Will Sue the Veteran’s Administration By Andres Chavez, Sun Staff Reporter Veterans and their supporters make it a 100 Sundays in a row protesting the VA A small and highly motivated group of veterans and their supporters, some in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, braved the blistery weather outside the [...]
STOLEN PROPERTY Land! Precious Land! America has fought over it, and rewarded those with it who waged the battle in victory of it. That was when America truly appreciated those who defended our freedom and independence. Thus, after the Revolutionary War, the U.S. government awarded “Bounty Land Warrants,” which was the exchange of free land [...]
PART I – STOLEN VALOR – Veterans Group Claims the VA, Politicians, and Homeowner Group Have Defamed and Dishonored Military Duty By Robert L. Rosebrock American Military Veterans in their 60s, 70s and 80s from World War II, Korean War and the Vietnam War are filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Attorneys Office of [...]
An Ugly Insult Against America’s Active Duty Military and Veterans By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer Since 1898, The United States Military Academy has had the words “Duty, Honor, Country” proudly emblazoned on its coat of arms and boldly engraved on some of its oldest buildings. The motto has become such a distinct code for [...]
By Katharine Russ On October 7, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the “Mojave Cross” (Salazar v Buono) that has been standing in a remote area of the 1.6 million acre Mojave Desert Preserve since 1934. At issue are two questions: 1. Whether an individual has Article III standing to bring [...]
HOLDING THE VA BUREAUCRATS ACCOUNTABLE If they can’t protect Veterans’ land or the American flag, its time to go. By Rees Lloyd Robert Rosebrock is Co-Director of "We, The Veterans" and Director of "Veterans Revolution," and a member of American Legion Riverside Post 79, District 21, and the "defendant" in a prosecution brought by VA [...]
TATTERED FLAG ON A RUSTED STAFF ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE FROM LA VETERANS OFFICIALS by Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer Just when you thought the Los Angeles VA bureaucrats couldn’t stoop any lower, or be any more disrespectful and insulting toward America’s Veterans, they ceremoniously pushed their sleaziness to a new low by disgracefully flying soiled, [...]
VETERANS SUMMER CELEBRATION The first annual “Veterans Summer Celebration” will be held on Sunday, August 16th, 12:00 – 4:00 PM on the “Grand Lawn” of the Los Angeles National Veterans Home. The celebration will be a gathering for all Veterans who have served to protect the safety and freedom of our nation, and it will [...]
THE VA POLICE ACTED STUPIDLY By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff WriterAn Open Letter to General Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs Dear Mr. Secretary: If President Obama thought that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly" in the treatment of the elderly Henry Gates at his own home, what will he think when he learns [...]
by Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer When young recruits show up for basic training or boot camp, they’re always treated the same — like dogs. After honorably serving their country, they are still treated the same — like criminals. The land at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home, the largest VA in the nation, was given [...]
VA-SPYGATE STOP THE SPYING AND LYING! By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer History reminds us that it’s not the initial crime but the cover-up attempt that becomes the real crime. And so it is with the VA’s infamous June 28th spying debacle on innocent World War II, Korean and Vietnam War Veterans who peacefully demonstrate [...]
VA-SPYGATE by Bob Rosebrock, Staff Writer The federal government’s surveillance van that was parked within 100 feet of the 67th consecutive Sunday Rally to “Save Our Veterans Land” on June 28th, was an affront to every American Veteran and a mockery against our U.S. Constitution and the American way of life. Fellow Veterans have repeatedly [...]
By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer June 28, 2009 is a day that will live in both infamy and honor in the lives of America’s Military Veterans and We the People. On that day, the sleazy VA bureaucrats of the West Los Angeles Medical Center infamously ordered a surveillance van to park within 100 feet [...]
They say the action at a VA medical facility is a sign of distress. But federal police interpret the symbol differently. by Bob Pool This is one battle that will probably be decided by whichever side is most "distressed" — officials of the VA Medical Center in West Los Angeles, or a group of protesting [...]
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