AMERICAN LEGION POST 28 – PETALUMA
Along with the other Veterans Service Organizations of the community will host the Annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 1100 at Cypress Hill Cemetery. Veterans and the community are invited to honor and remember our fallen women and men who gave their lives in service to our country. A barbecue at the Petaluma Veterans Memorial Building will follow immediately after the ceremony.
I’m a 84 year old and retired USAF 2 trips to Vietnam Veteran. I’ve supported a 125 acre Cemetery at the Great Park since 2017. Second best Gypsum is unsatisfactory for veterans! Not only that is the City of Anaheim is benefiting by sharing some of the cost for their use. Also-Gypsum is not that much further than the beautiful Riverside National Cemetery. I will also say where was all the UNITY when the city of Irvine voters approved it to be in the Great Park-NO WHER!
I say use the millions of dollars to take care Veterans health and other needs rather than spending the millions on totally wasteful and unneeded taxpayer dollars
on Gypsum. The “gee whiz look what we’re doing for Veterans-building a cemetery!” by politicians and many others is sad to say the least.
I’m a veteran and have supported an OC Veterans cemetery for a decade. I have written to my Congressman and CalVets to advocate for it. Is there anything more I can do to ensure it gets built in a timely manner?
Thank you
Yesterday, the Secretary of War told Senator Blumenthal that he will firmly support the Richard Star Act! I sincerely believe it will be part of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act!
I have been going to the WLAVA Center since 2012. I have seen changes on the campus to felicitate the medical treatment for the veterans; however, very little has been done to increase the housing for the veterans. Centered at the entry to the hospital is the ongoing mass transit project; several large building structures, one looks like a several story parking structure, another a large storage building. North campus has most all of the housing building that are in need of renovation. Some seem to be in the process of needed upgrading. Parking has always been a major problem and construction of multi-story parking will free up existing parking areas for housing construction.,
Planning and max-usage of the grounds seems to be in process and the area design utilized to the best usage. I don’t have access to the planning; but as any major undertaking of this magnitude; time is necessary before the outcome becomes a visual representative of what is being done…
I am 84 and have viewed housing and commercial construction over 40 years, and planning a large project takes time and is like a chest game with moving the pieces for the best positions.
I trust the planners will publish the final layout of the grounds to the wonderment of us citizens.
This is exciting news!
I served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. My second shipboard duty was as the Engineering Officer aboard USS Lucid (MSO-458) a wooden ocean minesweeper. To support the war effort Lucid deployed multiple times to WestPac including my deployment in 1970.
Most people don’t know this. Long Beach was the home port for all ocean minesweepers from the 1950d to 1970s. Twenty-four plus ships.
We raised our family in Anaheim Hills. Our family is still in the area, so this location for the new Veterans Cemetery is the ideal long-term resting place for my wife and me.
I was engineering officer board USS Lucid (MSO-458) for its final deployment to Vietnam for interdiction and minesweeping in 1970. Lucid was home ported in Long Beach, California. Lucid wa decommissioned following its deployment and is now being restored by Stockton Maritime to be a museum ship.
Upon decommissioning, I returned to civilian life and career in the sales and marketing of medical devices. We raised our family in Anaheim Hills. They still live close by.The location of this new VA cemetery is adjacent to our home. It would be the ideal resting sight for my wife and me.
AMERICAN LEGION POST 28 – PETALUMA
Along with the other Veterans Service Organizations of the community will host the Annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 1100 at Cypress Hill Cemetery. Veterans and the community are invited to honor and remember our fallen women and men who gave their lives in service to our country. A barbecue at the Petaluma Veterans Memorial Building will follow immediately after the ceremony.
I’m a 84 year old and retired USAF 2 trips to Vietnam Veteran. I’ve supported a 125 acre Cemetery at the Great Park since 2017. Second best Gypsum is unsatisfactory for veterans! Not only that is the City of Anaheim is benefiting by sharing some of the cost for their use. Also-Gypsum is not that much further than the beautiful Riverside National Cemetery. I will also say where was all the UNITY when the city of Irvine voters approved it to be in the Great Park-NO WHER!
I say use the millions of dollars to take care Veterans health and other needs rather than spending the millions on totally wasteful and unneeded taxpayer dollars
on Gypsum. The “gee whiz look what we’re doing for Veterans-building a cemetery!” by politicians and many others is sad to say the least.
I’m a veteran and have supported an OC Veterans cemetery for a decade. I have written to my Congressman and CalVets to advocate for it. Is there anything more I can do to ensure it gets built in a timely manner?
Thank you
Long overdue! We should appreciate our veterans more.
I will vote for the person who pushes the bill through
Thanks
Albert
Thank you for adding this perspective!
-Christian, Dig. Editor
Yesterday, the Secretary of War told Senator Blumenthal that he will firmly support the Richard Star Act! I sincerely believe it will be part of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act!
I have been going to the WLAVA Center since 2012. I have seen changes on the campus to felicitate the medical treatment for the veterans; however, very little has been done to increase the housing for the veterans. Centered at the entry to the hospital is the ongoing mass transit project; several large building structures, one looks like a several story parking structure, another a large storage building. North campus has most all of the housing building that are in need of renovation. Some seem to be in the process of needed upgrading. Parking has always been a major problem and construction of multi-story parking will free up existing parking areas for housing construction.,
Planning and max-usage of the grounds seems to be in process and the area design utilized to the best usage. I don’t have access to the planning; but as any major undertaking of this magnitude; time is necessary before the outcome becomes a visual representative of what is being done…
I am 84 and have viewed housing and commercial construction over 40 years, and planning a large project takes time and is like a chest game with moving the pieces for the best positions.
I trust the planners will publish the final layout of the grounds to the wonderment of us citizens.
This is exciting news!
I served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. My second shipboard duty was as the Engineering Officer aboard USS Lucid (MSO-458) a wooden ocean minesweeper. To support the war effort Lucid deployed multiple times to WestPac including my deployment in 1970.
Most people don’t know this. Long Beach was the home port for all ocean minesweepers from the 1950d to 1970s. Twenty-four plus ships.
We raised our family in Anaheim Hills. Our family is still in the area, so this location for the new Veterans Cemetery is the ideal long-term resting place for my wife and me.
I was engineering officer board USS Lucid (MSO-458) for its final deployment to Vietnam for interdiction and minesweeping in 1970. Lucid was home ported in Long Beach, California. Lucid wa decommissioned following its deployment and is now being restored by Stockton Maritime to be a museum ship.
Upon decommissioning, I returned to civilian life and career in the sales and marketing of medical devices. We raised our family in Anaheim Hills. They still live close by.The location of this new VA cemetery is adjacent to our home. It would be the ideal resting sight for my wife and me.