Los Angeles, CA -- (April 13, 2020) – Combat Vet Jake Ruch set off from the Welcome to Las Vegas sign on the south end of the strip Saturday morning to ride 300 miles to Los Angeles—in three days. Originally planned as a ride across ...
The VA’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Our Lifeline for Vets phones are ringing off the hook with Veterans or their family members asking about VA facilities. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the VA has called for additional screenings, questioning or testing Veterans ...
Thoughts at Thanksgiving
Richard McFarthing, a homeless vet living on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard. Copyright Jessica Jewell Lanier. The rain in Los Angeles today will continue into tomorrow. For here, it’s cold. In most other parts of the country it’s even ...
VA Denies Emergency Room Claims
When I first heard about this, I thought maybe some of these ER visits were unwarranted. But that’s not the case. The report from the VA’s Office of the Inspector General is titled, “Non-VA Emergency Care Claims Inappropriately Denied or ...
Feb. 4th Event at Patriotic Hall
US Veterans driving for flexLA
moovel has partnered with FASTLinkDTLA to bring Angelenos a new way to navigate Downtown Los Angeles. Starting as a community beta on October 2nd 2018, Angelenos and visitors can get around Downtown LA driven by U.S. military veterans, for ...
An Unexpected Good Turn for a Navy Veteran
Texas is a big state with many small towns. A call came in from a male Navy veteran in a small rural town of 5,076 people. He and his wife were in desperate need of food. They had been managing a hotel, which had been sold. In such a small ...
Getting a Lawyer for a Veteran
A woman veteran in Arizona had been through treatment for PTSD, MST (Military Sexual Trauma) and SUD (Substance Use Disorder). Although she was clean and sober, she’d had two DUI’s before she went into treatment. As a result of that, she ...
