And in a Country that Refuses to Sacrifice, but love symbols especially to show their patriotism, for the results of sending the some one percent, with their families waiting, into our wars of choice while they say they support, a decade plus now in the present added to the decades previous, while those they hire to represent, federal and state, with their blessing lay blame on the Agency they have a Responsibility to Fully Fund all needs for the Veterans of this Country, especially it's conflict veterans!
May 27, 2012 - World War II veteran Jim Parks is a 93-year-old former Navy sailor, who by his own admission is fading away but has never wavered in fighting to honor his fellow veterans. Ben Tracy reports on his latest project, designing a flag to remember the country's veterans.
May 27, 2012 - The three weeks he spent in the hospital this spring kept James Parks from lobbying government officials for endorsements in his decade-long quest for a nationally recognized veterans flag.
But the time didn't go entirely to waste.
The World War II Navy vet kept his pajama pockets stocked with Veterans Remembered Flag pins he peddled to doctors and nurses to raise funds for the Sonoma Valley Veterans Memorial Park Cemetery he helped found.
Now back at home in El Verano, Parks, who turns 93 today, hopes he still has time to win congressional approval for a banner that would acknowledge the sacrifices of military veterans throughout U.S. history and mark their burial places.
He said it makes no sense that there are flags for each branch of the military service, as well as for prisoners of war and those missing in action, and nothing for veterans.
“Twenty-three million veterans that served our country: Don't they deserve to have an emblem that represents them?” he asked. read more>>>
{Note: In the video report they talk about the National Cemetery he helped get built but also mention the others, those filling up and more. What they leave out is that finally new National Cemeteries have been added, and still are, around the country, and many of the existing have been expanded and or more completely maintained as to the 'National', some even getting alternative energy sources for the visitor centers and maintenance buildings and lighting etc.. All done in the last couple of years and much of it with the Recovery Funds, or better known as the Stimulus that some say didn't do anything! As this that follows shows: National Cemeteries Revitalized
Throughout VA’s system of 131 national cemeteries, 391 improvement projects are underway using $50 million in Recovery Act funding. VA is restoring and preserving 49 historic monuments and memorials, becoming more energy efficient by investing in renewable energy sources (solar and wind), moving forward on nine energy conservation projects, and improving access and visitor safety with 49 road, paving and grounds improvement projects.
Recovery Act funds are also being used to raise, realign, and clean approximately 200,000 headstones and markers, repair sunken graves, and renovate turf at 22 VA national cemeteries. All creating jobs in the private sector as much of this work was being done, some still is, with private contractors with cemetery staff help when not performing their own duties, it will also create a better environment for visitors from all over thus helping the local communities and businesses and jobs within same, in each state or part of state located, some states have only one others more then.}
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