500 Veterans or Fake news?

Mlive recently posted an article about a Veteran business owner who is raising donations for the veterans at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans. The article says the items help support about 500 veterans.

Just one problem with that. There are only about 200 or so veterans still in residence at this location. And the Home in the UP has an additional 125 or so at most. 

So the article is a little misleading.. but here is the link to it anyways.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2019/10/former-army-ranger-pulls-businesses-together-to-collect-essentials-for-veterans.html

DAV chapter 2, stealing credit for what others have done?

Wow. Talk about getting your ear talked off. Been on the phone today with several people.
Not happy with what I am being told.

Recently we posted the picture of the new VA shuttle bus, whose funding was done by our local DAV chapter 2 AUXILIARY UNIT.   The main chapter had nothing to do with raising the money for this vehicle.

Yet I am being told that they are taking credit for purchasing the vehicle. And that is NOT right.

The DAV Chapter 2, Grand Rapids, Michigan has problems of its own to deal with. It does not need to add more to it by taking credit for doing what others have done.

We are still failing our veterans.

Since we have closed down the Face Book page, I have started going thru the archives here and the notes I have kept over the years.

Oh my gowd.. I started having nightmares about that place. The things I witnessed happening. The changes that are taking place. How things are changing yet still staying the same.

The issues the advocates fought, the veterans we fought for, did it even matter?

I read about JL's discharge and how he was targeted for removal when he finally broke and was so angry he became unstable (or so it seemed to administration). How he was kicked to the street that day. And how his rights to fair and due process were violate, as well as his personal belongings and his privacy rights were trampled by the administration.

How others were targeted for discharge. How lower people on the staff were targeted for prosecution yet not one administrator or supervisor was held to the same standard.  - go for the easy conviction, for the one who will cave in first. That seemed to be a Scheutte AG standard.

Stupid decisions still being made about the care of our veterans, I see as history repeating itself.

The criminal acts of administration that have gone unaccounted for. Yet residents were kicked to the street with nothing but what they could carry.

Some things have improved, others are the same ole same ole.

My conclusion: Michigan is still failing to properly care for its veterans. And I do not think the new homes are going to change that fact.

New shuttle van donated to VA by DAV Auxiliary Unit #2

Sad the VA can't even provide a shuttle between the GR clinic and the Battle Creek VA hospital and Ann Arbor hospital, seeing how BC cannot serve half the Vets assigned to it. They have to go to Ann Arbor.

For those without tranportation, it means taking this shuttle from the GR clinic, to Battle Creek, spending the night at BC, then going on to Ann Arbor. Then if they can catch it going back the same day, the same thing in reverse.. so a 1 hour appointment takes them 3 to 4 days. 

And the Van has to be donated.

So our local DAV Auxiliary Unit #2 stepped up and bought the new van.

10 Care givers, may be up for charges again.

Wow, so now the state is looking to see if 10 care givers can be prosecuted for claiming they did work they did not do.

Well, what do you expect with privatization?  Apparently it now hinges on if they they knew the sheets were medical records or if they did not. So how well did J2S train its people? I would say rather poorly.



https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2019/10/home-for-veterans-workers-cleared-in-2015-wrongdoing-may-be-on-hook-again.html

Face book page closed, we are back here now.

Ok, the administrators have decided that Face book policies are creating too many conflicts with the abilities of the admins to run that page on face book any longer.

Face books policies on postings are so messed up, that our admins find themselves in face book jail constantly for one reason or another and it is usually because some snowflake got offended. This and constant harassment by Facebook to boost our posts, to advertise,  and about 50 other things they constantly send us that the viewers never see. It has just become too much of a hassle to continue on Face book.

And this time, their actions have prevented the admins from commenting on posts on the page itself. They can post main articles but no comments. That was the final straw.

Sorry, but that is the way it is.   At least now, if one of the admins gets put in to face book jail again, they can still publish news here.

No more snacks during bingo for veterans at the GR Vets home.

I am really bothered by what I was told today at the Vets Home by residents.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I keep seeing things happening that happened under the SD administration, that I hoped and thought would never happen again. However there are still a few holdouts in that administration and I think they are at the focal point of most of these situations that keep reoccurring.

First, bad news. Governor Whitmer is cutting the homes Budget. Over 2 million has been cut. Didn't Snyder try that game and it turned out to be a disaster?

Second, apparently Food and Drinks (snacks) will no longer be allowed to be served at Bingos held in the main Dining room.

What?!!! No munchies? yep. And I am told by staff that the members voted on it. Yet when I talked to Members, not one of them can remember voting on it. This same thing happened before. Slowly things are being taken away from our veterans. Things that make living at that place, bearable. NOT GOOD.