Show DAY Opposes Aid Edward 2147 Penman was among the more than delegates and members at the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in 8 through THE DAV went on record vigorously opposing any cuts in the Veterans Administration's medical facilities and staff and for an expansion in the VA program to meet the increasing needs of Vietnam Amputees from the Vietnam conflict now exceed the total number of amputees from world war II and Korea type of penny pinching at the expense of necessary treatment for those to whom we owe so much is an insult to the heritage and freedom for which we a DAV spokesman RECOMMENDATIONS have been made by the U.S. Bureau of Budget Control to reduce the VA hospital patient load by This will require the closing of the equivalent of 14 Is false economy and most detrimental to the health and welfare of disabled it was VA facilities are already the DAV citing numerous such THAN more veterans were treated by the VA in 1970 than the previous two California VA Angeles and LoS there lias been a a i percent increase in the 4 ber of veterans denied t Jl after worl war there were ve ri erans and beds authorize there are ve L. erans in Montana and where med cal officials have been accuse of practicing selective admS I a Vietnam rated 5 percent commit 2 suicide waiting for to a VA OTHER resolutions by the DAV in nationally urged that America if troops be kept in Vietnam ui til all prisoners of war ai opposed amnesty ft f young men who flee the com f try to avoid military urged loss of U.S. for travel to banned 1 without official di the conviction of L 1 William Calley for in Vietnam and urged dent Nixon to restore him his Army rank of second liaf I condemned of the U.S. forces by news |