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Don't Let the Veterans Administration Sell Land & Building Needed for Veterans! | Trauma Plan Released |
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.We Need Your Help to Insure the Zablocki VA is Used to Treat our Veterans! | Milwaukee's Mayor Barrett announces Support for VOVC | Governor Doyle Gives Support to VOVC |
These past three years has seen a national movement by the Veterans Administration to sell off valuable lands and building to raise cash for a system that is inadequately funded. And now with a huge increase in wounded soldiers, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and National Guard due to continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the pressure to sell is greater.
At the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, the Veterans Administration in Washington DC has attempted to sell off land and building for office parks, parking structures, retail shopping, and roads through quiet lands abutting the Wood National Cemetery to rush sports fans in and out of Miller Park. In 2007 the City of Milwaukee withdrew their massive development plan.
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Joint VA & Veteran Trauma Plan Released |
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What Wood National Cemetery
and these Grounds means
to the Veteran
We honor the past, and have an obligation to those who will follow
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| With increasing demand for services placed on our local VA, we put forward a proposal to utilize the historic building for providing health care programs that were lacking. We also proposed the construction of a Fisher House so our wounded veterans receiving care at our VA could have their family close by. And we proposed reopening Woods Cemetery to allow our local veterans to be buried with honor close to their home and family on acres of land readily available.
In June of 2007, and again in December, Senators Kohl, Feingold, and Congresswoman Moore asked the VA in Washington for a moratorium on any lease or sale while our proposal was studied. We joined with the VA Mental Health Staff in determining needed War Trauma Treatment needs.
And now in March of 2008 the VOVC has delivered a detailed plan for improvement of War Trauma Care at Zablocki including a needed Women's Trauma Clinic, the reopening of Wood Cemetery, and a Fisher or Fisher type house on these grounds. We need your support to make this happen.
We also proposed the construction of a Fisher House so our wounded veterans receiving care at our VA could have their family close by. And we proposed reopening Woods Cemetery to allow our local veterans to be buried with honor close to their home and family on acres of land readily available.
In June of 2007, and again in December, Senators Kohl, Feingold, and Congresswoman Moore asked the VA in Washington for a moratorium on any lease or sale while our proposal was studied. We joined with the VA Mental Health Staff in determining needed War Trauma Treatment needs.
And now in March of 2008 the VOVC has delivered a detailed plan for improvement of War Trauma Care at Zablocki including a needed Women's Trauma Clinic, the reopening of Wood Cemetery, and a Fisher or Fisher type house on these grounds. We need your support to make this happen. |
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