Save the Veterans Hospitals

We, the veterans, and patients, and concerned citizens of the United States ask that you support our online petition at the following link. We need every signature possible and every person to get involved and make their voice heard by contacting their elected officials and demanding that the VA hospitals remain open and receive increased funding for operation. The American people say that they support our troops, now is the time to show that support. Make sure a soldier returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has a hospital to come home to for care. Please forward this email to your friends, family and elected officials.

After adding you name, go to the CARES Commission website and send them a comment on how you feel about this issue.

CARESCommission@hq.med.va.gov

WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The Veterans Administration is proposing closure of the Canandaigua, NY VA medical Hospital along with 7 (SEVEN)others in the US. This hospital and the other seven are vital to our veterans and our hospital has been rated the best in the country. We have our state Senators and Representatives fighting to keep it open. BUT, We need the help of everyone to help start a letter drive and petition to help keep our VA hospitals open and increase the funding for our hospitals. We now ask for your help in this fight. I am a veteran and this is my hospital. If it is closed, other vets and I will be forced to drive 80 or more miles for care. This is the same story for other VA hospitals slated for closure. Since we are disabled and many are elderly, this is an outrage. It is unthinkable to ask the elderly and disabled who have given so much to us...especially our right to free speech and peacefully protest our government...to take away their healthcare and impede the care that they need so desperately. We are putting these veterans lives at risk by A) having them travel so far, B) putting others at risk by asking them to drive that far when many are on medications that impair driving ability, C) That their pain is so severe that driving long distances would be extremely painful and debilitating, D) Life threatening illnesses of such, that time is critical in their care. Driving 80 miles for care would surely mean death.

At the moment our president has involved us in 2 wars, and is pushing for a third and fourth. He is creating veterans at an alarming rate, yet he calls for reduced benefits and medical care. We need to get America to support their veterans. They say have said that they support the troops, well now is the time to show it. We need every American to call, write and email their elected representatives and demand that this outrage be stopped. Now is the time for action. These veterans have little time left. So I beg of you to throw the full weight of the American people behind this fight and let's make a difference.