Major Haynes Presidential Medal of Freedom Nomination 🦅 | TVLC
Weekly Report 🎖️
Good day, Outpost 1,
I am pleased to report that the following organizations have endorsed the posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom nomination for Major John Haynes Sr.
Air & Space Forces Association Bud West Chapter 419
American Legion Sauls-Bridges Post 13
AMVETS Post 1776
Florida Veterans Foundation
Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 758
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) Tallahassee
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 96
MORE ORGANIZATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS ARE COMING IN
If you or your family/organization has been positively impacted by the service Major Haynes provided to the Veterans of Leon County, please let us know you want to sign the letter. We will need a good email address so we can send you the documents for digital signature.
Once we have captured all of the signatures, it will be printed on archival-quality paper and mailed to the White House.
The nomination paperwork is attached to the bottom of this email.
🇺🇸 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO MAKE THIS WORK POSSIBLE 🦅
Greetings, Team
This Monday is your next chance to observe a session of the LEON COUNTY VETERANS’ TREATMENT COURT, June 8 (3 pm Leon County Courthouse, Courtroom 2E). Maybe you will consider becoming an invaluable Veteran Mentor for one of the other Vets working their way through the program and recovery. Several Veterans are awaiting a Mentor, both men and women.
The walk-in clinic yesterday, Thursday, June 4, included our Team of 20 Volunteers (including 9 attys). We worked with a near-record 28 Veterans and family members in person including two others by phone. New resources were available for substance abuse, several Veterans needed help reinstating their Driver’s License, and the law student returned, spending part of his break from Univ of Virginia helping Veterans! Volunteer atty John Linney (Col. USA Ret.) has set a record for assisting Veterans with VA benefits issues over the last month! Wednesday’s food delivery team: Veterans Sam Adams, Charles Robinson and Eddie McMillian drove the truck and trailer load to various sites around the county.
Also Wednesday, the Commanders Coalition meeting included nearly fifty representatives of Veterans organizations and service agencies, including new services for area Veterans and representatives from at least 3 elected local and congressional officials. Congressman Dunn’s office reported ongoing attempts to save funding for Vet Village housing (see below).
Florida’s Boys State and Girls State, sponsored by the American Legion was approved for $200,000 for next summer! The legislature finally passed the budget for the next year (beginning July 1) and included a near record number of local and statewide Veterans’ Projects (including 48 in the FDVA budget alone); See the 550-pger HB 5001E General Appropriations Act at www.flhouse.gov/Budget/2026E ; pending Governor’s review now.
REDUX: ALARM FOR AREA VETERANS AND SUPPORT AGENCIES: Vet Village, owned by Volunteers of America, Inc, is planning to close at the end of September, for lack of funding! Everyone start brainstorming to see which agencies, govt entities, etc. can maybe lease and continue operating the facility for 54 Veteran beds for “transitioning off the Streets!” Time to be creative and deliberate!
It’s time for an advocacy email from you! These next couple of weeks the Governor will be receiving, reviewing and deciding whether to approve many of the bills that were passed in this year’s legislative session that “ended” last month. His office needs to hear your emphatic support for General Patt Maney’s House Bill 199 which will strengthen Veterans’ Treatment Courts all over the state by increasing the number of Veterans entering the Criminal Court program to rebuild their lives and record, recover from addiction or other behavioral/ trauma personal problems and succeed in moving forward for their families and their future. Even a brief phone message to his office will accomplish the same purpose of showing our support (850/717-9337). The link to the Executive Office of the Governor is: https://www.flgov.com/eog/leadership/people/ron-desantis/contact
One special need: The number of issues with the VA is outstripping our local resources to keep up with the complications, new claims, and VA delays; so, any other attorneys wanting to join our “VA Law team,” we need you, and have training and national legal resources available to bring you into the fray. Were you a JAG? Have you helped with Social Security or other federal agencies that you already have a headstart on picking up VA law?
What else?
Thank you,
Dan Hendrickson, for the Tallahassee Veterans Legal Collaborative www.Tallahasseeveteranslegal.com
PO Box 11091, Tallahassee, Fl 32302, 850/ 570-1967
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