Letter to the Editor | California American Legion

Have You Been Left Out? It’s Time for a Fix: the Story of a National Guardsman / Reservist Denied the Right to Be Buried With His Family

by caLegion Contributor | Feb 17, 2024

By: SFC Pete Fosselman, CA ARNG, U.S. Army A few years ago, my family and I went to the Presidio of San Francisco National Cemetery to bury my uncle next to his wife who predeceased him. While in the Presidio office, I was reading the eligibility requirements...

Op-Ed: Disabled Veterans, Veterans on Medicare, and Active-Duty Military Families MUST be Protected from a 1332 Waiver Proposal Outlined in SB 770

by caLegion Contributor | Dec 13, 2023

By Jeff Breiten, Redlands Post 106 Member SB 770 was recently signed into law by Governor Newsom (September 2023) and now a proposal, which seeks to eliminate Medicare in California and establish a “state run health care system”, is moving its way through...

Letter to the Editor: No Purple Heart for a Wounded Vietnam Veteran

by Christian Southards | Aug 10, 2023

Good morning, Christian I am a member of Post 0291 Newport. I want to ask you a question on the criteria of a Purple Heart. Today if a Soldier gets hurt by an IED he is awarded a Purple Heart; yet I was blown out of my truck in Vietnam after hitting a land mine and...

UPDATED: Letter to the Editor: on California Property Tax Exemptions for Disabled Veterans

by caLegion Contributor | May 26, 2023

UPDATED: The original version of this article omitted a bill making its way through the California Senate. [In response to a recent post on a bill that would exempt Veterans’ military pensions from California income taxes.] I appreciate the article and the...