{"id":81233,"date":"2017-05-28T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81233"},"modified":"2017-05-28T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:27:36","slug":"letter-urges-governor-to-fully-fund-veterans-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81233","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Urges governor to fully fund Veterans Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70195\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-150x109.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day many Veterans &amp; their families will be remembering those that gave all for America. All\u00a0Veterans commit to giving their lives if necessary to defend America &amp; our beliefs in exchange for a promise\u00a0they will receive the health care needed when they return home. Once again Governor Cuomo has reneged on\u00a0that promise and proved that Veterans are a throw-away commodity. The Governor of NYS cares more about educating those that probably won\u2019t serve than honoring the commitment to take care of those that did serve.<\/p>\n<p>All across New York state, Veterans Homes are shutting down units while there is a waiting list for Veterans to\u00a0get in the home to receive the much-needed care. This is due to a hiring freeze! Bradd Vickers President of the\u00a0Veterans and Farmers Alliance and life member of the American Legion, and VFW is urging everyone to call\u00a0the Governor\u2019s office 518-474-8390 and ask him to do the right thing and honor that commitment to our Veterans by fully staffing our Veterans homes!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bradd Vickers NYS\u00a0President, Veterans &amp; Farmers Alliance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Memorial Day many Veterans &amp; their families will be remembering those that gave all for America. All\u00a0Veterans commit to giving their lives if necessary to defend America &amp; our beliefs in exchange for a promise\u00a0they will receive the health care needed when they return home. Once again Governor Cuomo has reneged on\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,23678,23808,8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}