HD18 - Report of the Commission on Veterans' Affairs
Executive Summary: In 1982-83 the work of the Commission was more far ranging than in the preceding biennium. No specific study mandate had been given the Commission by the 1982 General Assembly, and no one issue dominated the Commission's hearings in the way that calls for a state veterans' cemetery had been the focus of attention in 1981-82. (See House Document No. 10, 1982). In an effort to discharge its obligation to ascertain the needs of the Commonwealth's veterans, the Commission held six public hearings across the state in 1982 and 1983. In the course of those hearings, several hundred individual veterans, representatives of veterans' organizations, government officials, and concerned individuals appeared before the Commission to present their views. Considerable correspondence also was received in support of suggestions made at the public hearings. After considering the observations and recommendations it received over the biennium, the Commission concluded that many veterans' needs were not being met, and that some actions, omissions, and policies of the Commonwea.lth and its local governments were, in effect, either insulting to veterans or detrimental to their best interests. To improve the condition of Virginia's veterans, the Commission formulated eleven legislative (see Appendix I) and eight nonlegislative proposals for consideration by state and local officials. |
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