Posted on 06/03/2015 8:28:38 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
A 99-year-old World War II veteran who wants to move from a Minnesota veterans' home to one in California is frustrated by a state law that requires six months of residency first.
George Vandersluis grew up in Minneapolis and eventually settled in Fresno, California, where he raised his sons after the war. He returned to Minnesota after suffering a heart attack eight years ago to live in a Veterans Affairs facility in Hastings.
KSTP first introduced you to Vandersluis, who is one of the last Pearl Harbor survivors, on Memorial Day.
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This man deserves to be sent wherever he wants to go…..
I would think his children are involved with his move.
Don’t you just hate people who use a rule book for everything? The person stopping this guy must have be someone you want to punch in the face.
Martinets. Look it up.
This guy fought for freedom and now is being treated like a prisoner in a fascist state.
Oh, that makes sense because the U.S. Is a fascist state.
Politicians who’ve never served/
God Bless this man....I bet this national attention will get him his desired move.
This is disgraceful. There was no residency requirement for fighting back at Pearl Harbor.
The very definition of “bureaucracy” is to complicate the process to the extent the pretended service is never rendered.
California probably needs the space for an illegal Mexican
[The very definition of “bureaucracy” is to complicate the process to the extent the pretended service is never rendered.]
This nails it down to every last crossing of the t’s and dotting of the i’s.
Palacial and bigger than you'd think.
The Veterans Home of California is located in Yountville, California and was founded in 1884.[1][2] The facility is the largest of its kind in the United States and has a population of 1200 aged and disabled veterans of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Several levels of care are offered to residents including domicillary services, residential care for the elderly, intermediate nursing care, skilled nursing care, adult day health care and outpatient clinic.
The grounds of the facility include the 1,214 seat Lincoln Theater (home of Symphony Napa Valley, Orchestra Institute Napa Valley as well as a robust education program), a 9-hole golf course, baseball stadium, bowling alley, swimming pool, U.S. Post Office and a military base exchange branch store. All of these facilities are available for use by resident veterans at no additional cost. Additionally, the home offers services specifically for residents including a fitness center, a resident operated television station, auto hobby shop, a 35,000 volume library, creative arts center, and a multi-faith chapel. A cemetery on the grounds holds the graves of over 5,500 veterans and their spouses dating back to the Spanish- American War of 1898.
It is obvious to everyone other than the "cognitive dissonance" controllers and the Zero information losers who support them.
Barack Hussein's Socialist Utopia and fascism are simply two sides of the same coin.
They just haven't figured it out yet.
Each state has its own laws. When I moved from Alaska to Arizona, I forfeited my right to live in the Alaska Pioneer and Veterans’ Home, even though I spent six years in the Marine Corps as an Alaska resident and well over 20 years in the Alaska Air National Guard as an Alaska resident. If I want in, I have to first reestablish Alaska residency. That’s just the way it is, unfortunately.
The whole VA system should never have been created. It should be abolished. Nothing government-run can work. All such enterprises are loaded with perverse incentives. Currently, of course, Hussein is using the VA system to murder vets.
Vets should receive a check with which to buy medical insurance, or nursing home care, or anything else they need.
IIRC and I have seen this done, he can be transferred to a private nursing home and VA contract the facility for his care.
When I was in 1968-76, I remember having a small amount taken out of my paycheck that was supposed to be for the Old Soldiers’ Home or something like that. Is this still a practice?
No idea.
You mean the Old Soldiers’ Home in Washington, D.C.? My grandfather herded his grandfather’s cows on that land in the early 1890’s.
Yeah....something like that. I just remember it as a deduction every month.
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