Thursday, October 31, 2019

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


Monday, October 28, 2019

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.