Is Systematic Abuse by State Appointed Guardians and family court helping to cause early deaths of veterans at the Michigan Veterans Home?

If you are an adult, and you are married, who comes first? Your spouse, right?

What if you become ill and need help and go to the hospital, and the hospital administration decides you need a court appointed guardian, what then?

What if the State court just decides to revoke the  power of attorney you gave your spouse, and appoints a guardian over you, without a hearing?  Is this not due process abuse?

And what if you have been married for over 45 years to the same man, and the guardian refuses to allow you to VISIT him?!! And sells your family home forcing you into a nursing home? Is this not abuse of not only your husband veteran, but you as well?

And what if that guardian immediately files for a divorce that neither you nor your spouse wants? Would you call that abuse by the guardian?

And what if that divorce never happens, but 20,000 of your money is spent on lawyer fees? Is this not abuse of your MONEY by the Guardian?

Or what if the guardian tells the home to make you take a psychotic drug, because the guardian is tired of you as a veteran, standing up for your rights, objecting to the presence of the guardian, and the decisions they are making on your behalf, for which you feel are not the right decisions?  Is this abuse?

And during your time under this guardian, your ID is stolen 3 times, resulting in your credit history being ruined, the guardian sells your car, but cannot account for the money. Is this also abuse?

And what if someone calls your Home Mortgage company, claiming to be your wife, wanting to refinance your home, but finds out since they don't have the security code, they cannot proceed?  Is this Abuse of the person?  It is fraud, and it is a felony to misrepresent ones self as someone else in such legal matters. And it has happened more than once.

What if that Guardian instead of consulting your wife on maters, calls your Mother and Sister who both do not like your wife of 35+ years; and conspire with them for a full funeral, which you and your spouse do not want. The guardian puts a large sum of your money down as a deposit for a funeral that you don't even want. IS this Abuse? 

And instead of returning your belongings and finances to your wife, the guardian sends them to your Mother who has no legal right to them, is this not abuse (of the family by the guardian)?

What about over drugging you, or forcing you to take drugs you do not need, denying you the right to a second opinion, (from someone other than the homes medical staff), is this NOT abuse of the Veteran??

These abuses and the stress from having to endure this kind of treatment by people who are supposed to be helping you and looking out for your best interests, has terrible effects on the health of these veterans. It wears them down fast, and leads to an early grave.

These are abuses that have happened to various veterans who USED to live at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.  They are dead now.  And its still happening to many other veterans at the Home.

An investigation of how many veterans are appointed Guardians needs to be called for by members of  the US Congress.  And abuse of these veterans by the State family court, and the Guardians and/or conservators, needs to be investigated fully due to the fact that the State government won't lift a finger to help these veterans.

Local law enforcement refuses to get involved or take any complaints by veterans or their families. In stead they are referred to the State Attorney General, who represents the State in such matters, not the veterans. The veterans have no voice, no Ombudsman to speak for them.  No one. 


Karen Fugi (SP?), a counselor at the home, is one whose name keeps coming up as the person who has made the recommendations for guardianship.

The State Appointed guardian whose name keeps cropping up as letting these abuses happen is Cynthia Thornberry, (SP?) 

And the state judge who took away the spouse's rights is  State Family Court Judge David Murkowski whom himself has abused families and veterans, by doing what he calls "helping them".

Yeah right. They are helping themselves to the Veterans Money, and sending the Veteran to an early grave. That is not helping them.

Veterans Home Board of Managers continues to abuse this Navy Veterans rights.

What is the matter with Earnest Meyers? Is he an egotistical maniac? Makes me wonder after seeing this latest from the Board of managers. And I do not think all the members of the board are making these decisions. I think its mainly Earnest Meyers.

They must think a 365 lb severely over weight, cardiac patient who can't even walk from Kozy corners to the main dining hall without wheezing is a major threat to people.

I can't wait till he gets hauled into court and has to tell a judge why this incident has gone on so long. And then watch the judge  berate him for being so petty.

Here is what the board has sent Greg M.  (Thanks for sending to me Greg).

The GRH4V member handbook (2010 edition approved, not the 2012 edition), Says a discharged veteran can seek the assistance of an attorney.

Now it seems Earnest Meyers is angry that Greg M did just that! And took the attorneys advice over the directions of the board of managers. Thus setting this up for a legal battle.

The attorney stated, that the member handbook applies to members. And that since Greg was no longer a member, it no longer applied.

When Greg started returning to the home, no one objected.. head of security knew and talked to him. So did the main security person who originally wrote him up.   If he is such a threat, why didn't they object?

They even said they had no problem with him being there as he was behaving himself, and helping his fellow veterans.. Only Earnest Meyers seems to be the one who has objected.

All this, because Greg got angry and lost his temper, and instead of screaming at the top of his lungs at one or more staff, he did it in writing, based on the fact he thought the home was indicating that they intended to steal his car because he could not park it in the designated member parking area, because the areas were filled with EMPLOYEE Cars. 

Dammed if he did, dammed if he did not.  Catch 22. And they refused him any due process. This was his first offense and they kicked him out perminantly, dishonorably and have tried to keep him off the property.

He took the advice of a lawyer per their own handbook and now Meyers is all in a flutter about it.

Why? Why is this guy such a threat to them? I will now say why for the 2nd time.. Because they think he writes this blog. And if they ever admitted to it, they would be in direct violation of the law and know they could get into big trouble for doing so.

Greg needs a GOOD attorney, if interested drop us a comment and I will pass it on to him.