Sepulveda VA loses its heart and soul

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives May 5, 2011

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By Dennis McCarthy, Los Angeles Daily News Remember all those columns I wrote back in the early 2000s when our local veterans were fighting to keep their gym - their lifeline - open at Sepulveda VA, and they won the fight? Remember every year when I asked you for donations so many of our older local veterans living on a shoestring could afford to wave the flag again and go to the Golden Age Games - their Olympic Games - to bring us back more medals? That was Steve Palmer.

That was Steve Palmer. Remember the columns on the World War II vet who would stop by Building 99 - long-term care - at the VA seven mornings a week to deliver a free copy of the Daily News to every bedridden veteran on his last stop in life? It was their only connection to the outside community.