Sunday, January 20, 2008

Mark Douglas Thompson's column in the Morning News for January 20, 2008

I've talked to nurses and doctors who work at the veterans' hospital in Fayetteville in past months as well as a retired worker from the VA and several aging current patients.
All say our local VA does a great job. I had been asking the question with the idea of commenting. So now that something to balance the perfect reports has become available I can offer something fair.
A popular columnist for the Morning News has featured a story about how the parking rules at the VA appear to be giving one aging veteran a difficult time. Please read
Mark Douglas Thompson's column on local VA victim
for the rest of the story. It isn't the kind of horror story we read about from other parts of the nation about vets newly brought from the battlefield who are being slighted, but it is outrageous to imagine an 87-year-old getting a $50 ticket if he had parked in the middle of North College Avenue or North Street.

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