Honoring Our Veterans
This Veterans Day, FAC proudly recognizes and honors the men and women among us who have served in the Armed Forces. Their courage, sacrifice, and devotion to protecting our freedoms deserve the deepest gratitude and respect.
Yet it is a shameful reality that some of those same heroes — individuals who risked their lives in service to this country — now find themselves ostracized and marginalized by the very government they once defended. Instead of being honored for their service, they are often subjected to exclusionary laws and restrictions that deny them the dignity, stability, and respect they’ve earned.
At the Florida Action Committee, we stand with our veterans in a commitment to ensuring that every person, regardless of past mistakes, is treated with fairness, compassion, and humanity. No one who has sacrificed for this nation should be made to feel like an outcast in the country they fought to protect.
To those who have served, Happy Veteran’s Day. Thank you for your past service to our country and your present service in fighting alongside us for the freedom and liberty this country promises. FAC hosts a Veterans Support Group that meets by phone on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 7:00–8:30 p.m. ET. All Veterans are invited to join the call by dialing 760-548-9898. The group is facilitated by Mike, who can be reached at 831-353-4500 for more information.
On this Day, and every day, we thank our veterans for their service, honor their sacrifices, and reaffirm our commitment to standing beside them in solidarity and support.
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Thank you to all our FAC vets. We appreciate you!
8 years medically retired Army combat veteran. Got blown up 3 time over seas a few I do not remember but the VA did. Well retired now can not access a base now with the registry event though I should be able to. I cant get an ID card, show my sons what I did which was the tank mechanic, all there. Honorable 100 percent service connected.
@Crazy88
Question, does the ban even apply to the V.A hospital? If so, that is even more disgusting. What is next, taking away the monthly payments (For those who made it to retirement)?
Was someone denied admittance to the VA?
That was what I was asking Crazy88. Awaiting his response. If so, how come you can go to the V.A but not the base?
I am a 50% disabled veteran, a registrant and have gotten tremendous care from the VA. Criminal history and registration questions have never come up. I think VA policy is not to discriminate against felons. I don’t know what would happen if a VA hospital is on a military base; mine is not. Access to the base is at the discretion of the base commander. I was denied entry to my local base for “security” reasons.
EdC
Seems to me they could work out some system to where if you are a registered person and a veteran, they could have someone escort you around until you are finished with your business. I guess they could say that could take up a lot of manpower, but I do not think 50 registrants are going to smash the gates all at once. They could even do an appointment system where you make an appointment and have a base employee escort you around until you leave the property.
I mean compare a military base versus being on a school property. It is the difference between night and day. Many of us have already been fired by their doctors’ offices. If things do not get better and the law makers keep adding more crap on us, eventually we might get sent to camps like they did recently with those claimed to be illegally in the country. Not sticking up for illegals, but they still should be treated under the Geneva Convention with humane treatment, as ALL of us deserve to be treated.
Our view is that our members are more than capable of going about their business without the need to be escorted while doing so.
My Dad Navy veteran still alive Vietnam and other wars
My two uncles Marines, one alive, one dead Vietnam
My Grandfather, WWII Army, deceased
To all those who served, Thank you for your service
AND, for any veterans on the registry, I am so sorry that you went from serving our country to serving a lifetime on the registry with very few options to retire from it.
We have a lot of veteran registrants on this site. Thank you guys 💪🇺🇸
Yes, thanks to all our brothers and sisters who served us. I spent 27 years in the Air Force. Got convicted in military court martial after Florida dropped charges…for 2 internet pics of no one knows who or how old they were. I got 6 months and lost 2 stripes, but the jury said I could retire honorably since this happened after so many years of honorable service.
I retired 6 months later and had full benefits and full base access. 8 years later a new base commander randomly decided I was no longer allowed base access or keep any of the benefits I had earned (BX, commissary, law office, ID offices, church service, etc).
For 8 years I came and went with zero problems. Now suddenly I’m more dangerous than I was yesterday… I appealed of course, but was denied again by the same commander who banned me. How is this not punishment? If I was rich I’d sue for blocking my earned benefits just to see what happens, but as ya’ll well know, most of us can’t afford lawyers.
Sorry for the rant, hurts more on days like today. Thanks again to all our vets!
TJ
As a son of a military Dad, I have been on military bases for many years of my life. Very few kids are on bases, so if those who are left are trained military personnel, I do not think a person on the registry is going to overpower someone on a base where numerous service members carry guns, some are body builders or trained in hand-to-hand combat.
So why are they afraid of someone who served their country, but made a mistake in the past, to not allow those who served their privileges and access to the PX, commissary and other perks for those who earned them?
I never thought it could get worse, until I saw awhile back on F.A.C that even some churches now are banning us from attending services.
I don’t know that it was the base/cc who did it but more like DOD policy that did it for everyone. The sibling CA org to FAC has long tracked it with their forum. As a fellow AF vet, those who earned the benefits should be able to use them. Remember, it is more than just PFRs who were banned, but felons altogether who once had the ability to enter that were too.
21 year Air Force combat vet here. Thank You FAC for all you do
Machiavelli
Thank you for all you did to protect our nation. Slap in the face though from the registry trying to tarnish all of us, but especially those who risked their lives to keep us safe.