In case you didn’t know it, The American Legion set up a crisis center in Phoenix to help veterans and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs hospital there catch up on appointments. According to the Associated Press it’s going gangbusters down there.
“Unfortunately, we have to be here,” Verna Jones, the director of veteran’s affairs and rehabilitation for the national American Legion, told the crowd at the crisis center in Phoenix on Tuesday. “But fortunately, we’re here to help you with the services that you deserve.”
Jones addressed a packed room filled with veterans seeking help to expedite their care through the VA while many complained they felt as if they had fallen through the cracks.
“It hurts us to have just one vet stand up and say, `I’m dying because the VA failed me,'” Jones said. “They’re frustrated, they’re concerned and they just don’t know where to go.”
The American Legion said it will operate the crisis center in Phoenix through Friday and expects to assist hundreds of veterans, possibly extending the program to other cities.
This is why I keep my American Legion membership. This is what it’s all about.
Private citizens vs Big Gubbment. What a difference.
Vets will always help vets better than anyone else…
Mr Wolf…+100 my man!
This is why I became a Legion life member. I can always count on them to help when and where they can. The VA should be shamed that a civilian organization has to step in to help clean up the mess made by greedy, lazy pencil necked office pogues. I say, dump the current system and contract the veterans organizations to do all the paperwork and set the appointments.