Placido sent me this email, and I am sharing with as many people as possible. Please consider writing, calling or emailing Senators Harry Reid, Daniel Akaka and Carl Levin and stressing the importance and the need for a South Texas VA hospital. It is entirely too much to expect veterans to come all the way to San Antonio from way south Texas.
Thanks,
Sally Tarasoff (USAR veteran)
American GI Forum of Texas
Education Is Our Freedom and Freedom Should Be Everybody’s Business
Placido Salazar, State 2/Vice Commander
214 Parkview Drive, Universal City TX 78148
(210) 658-9756 ~ psalazar9@satx.rr.com
Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder
September 18, 2008
Honorable Senators Harry Reid, Daniel Akaka and Carl LevinSenator Harry Reid, I applaud your enthusiasm as Majority Leader to secure funding for these projects in your own district “….. to ensure that the state’s bases have everything they need”. (Re: Press Release BELOW). In my position as State Vice Commander for The American GI Forum of Texas, I respectfully beg of you gentlemen to apply that same enthusiasm toward advancing for-signature S-1838 (South Texas Veterans’ Health Act) which was introduced by Senator John Cornyn, co-sponsored by Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and others. We have been informed by Senator Cornyn’s office that his effort to advance S-1838 as an AMENDMENT to Defense Authorization legislation, was blocked by you and Senator Carl Levin. This is by no means a new battle; we have been fighting since WWII to obtain a full-service VA hospital for the McAllen-Harlingen area, but receiving this information from Senator Cornyn on what appeared to be imminent relief, our hope has once-again turned into great disappointment.How many more of our disabled mostly-Hispanic Veterans, who served Heroically and PROUDLY in each war - to present – must die an early death because of non-availability of full-service VA medical care within a reasonable distance. Needless to say, a more than 500-mile-round-trip IS NOT a “reasonable” distance for this large group of aging disabled Veterans. We would like to believe that ethnic ‘indifference’ is not a factor, in meeting the needs of Hispanic-American Veterans, but…… after seeing millions and millions of dollars spent on convenience projects in other areas of the country; even the construction of city halls, schools and medical facilities in Iraq, with U.S. taxpayer money, I cannot help but wonder.
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