hopeless in Reading, PA, USA
Posted in Resources over 2 years ago, 9 replies
submitted by Devin in Reading, PA
just left from this place today i was stranded from new york and delia was not as nice as you say she is trust and belive this place is not the place you would wanna be.Fights broke out over night people just walking in this place all high and drunk.Plus carnal the receptionist didnt even care
submitted by chris lopes in usa
@ February 21, 2011 - 01:03 PM
D Managing editor VT
I volunteer almost every day helping others not in writing but in real person with the needy on the street or the homeless veterans in the park. I have done this since coming back from the Vietnam Conflict in 74. I strongly believe that my volunteering is my obligation to pay for coming back alive. Life to me is a waste of time if we allow what others gave their lives for to be in VAIN. We the US Military Veterans learn in a different way the haves and haves not to what the true meaning of freedom in a civilized society are. Many people (including Veterans) have problems far worse than I. My answer to that has to be “anyone right or anyone individual can not be diminished at no time by our government”. I talk about the wrongs the VA, NH and federal government is doing to me in retribution to stop my freedom of speech but they do this same thing to far too many US Military Veterans silenced by circumstances. Freedom of speech has to be one of the best ways to maintain a government of we the people. My volunteering to help others or my writing to correct the wrongs in government may not mean as much to those that did not serve in our military but I will never believe it is a waste of time.
The statement that “I do not care about anyone but myself” could be a very hurtful statement. Maybe that is the way people perceive me. Freedom is a great avenue for it gives everyone the right to his or her own opinion. The VA is a government department established to help all US Military veterans. We as a civilized society can never leave one behind to satisfy the editors of Veterans Today. To accuse me of abusing the writers of VT is a very powerful statement in that my letters are truthful and accurate. Government retribution against any citizen cannot be tolerated no matter even if some in this civilized society believe time eventually means we accept one individual is a lost victim. Government retribution against a 100% disabled US military Veteran by stopping medical care for even one day is a inhuman act that time cannot be the reason to justify the illegal accomplishment. My four service connected disabilities may limit my abilities to help others as much as is needed but at no time does it establish that “I do not care”.
This letter to you Jim Dean of the Veterans Today editor’s staff may mean that you silence my words. My continuous volunteering to help all others even the ones that have in the past harmed me allows me to learn from the hurtful acts of others. To scoop a dead guy story is your view of my finding an avenue to extend the knowledge of other citizens in this civilized society. It is like when I was a US Marine Sgt finding a way to complete the mission learning from the obstacles the enemy so careless inflicted.
Veterans Today just in the name are a means of communication for US military veterans to tell others good and bad. No matter how many times the same wrongful act is repeated until every citizen in the USA believes in correcting it shows the abuser is not the veteran but the system. My opinion may be that Veterans Today is losing the reason it was started. It can be compared to the Veterans Administration harming veterans that it is obligated to care for because over time the public has learned to accept some US Military veterans are not worth civilized societies time. Justification cannot be forgetting as time expires.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
603-781-3839
I volunteer almost every day helping others not in writing but in real person with the needy on the street or the homeless veterans in the park. I have done this since coming back from the Vietnam Conflict in 74. I strongly believe that my volunteering is my obligation to pay for coming back alive. Life to me is a waste of time if we allow what others gave their lives for to be in VAIN. We the US Military Veterans learn in a different way the haves and haves not to what the true meaning of freedom in a civilized society are. Many people (including Veterans) have problems far worse than I. My answer to that has to be “anyone right or anyone individual can not be diminished at no time by our government”. I talk about the wrongs the VA, NH and federal government is doing to me in retribution to stop my freedom of speech but they do this same thing to far too many US Military Veterans silenced by circumstances. Freedom of speech has to be one of the best ways to maintain a government of we the people. My volunteering to help others or my writing to correct the wrongs in government may not mean as much to those that did not serve in our military but I will never believe it is a waste of time.
The statement that “I do not care about anyone but myself” could be a very hurtful statement. Maybe that is the way people perceive me. Freedom is a great avenue for it gives everyone the right to his or her own opinion. The VA is a government department established to help all US Military veterans. We as a civilized society can never leave one behind to satisfy the editors of Veterans Today. To accuse me of abusing the writers of VT is a very powerful statement in that my letters are truthful and accurate. Government retribution against any citizen cannot be tolerated no matter even if some in this civilized society believe time eventually means we accept one individual is a lost victim. Government retribution against a 100% disabled US military Veteran by stopping medical care for even one day is a inhuman act that time cannot be the reason to justify the illegal accomplishment. My four service connected disabilities may limit my abilities to help others as much as is needed but at no time does it establish that “I do not care”.
This letter to you Jim Dean of the Veterans Today editor’s staff may mean that you silence my words. My continuous volunteering to help all others even the ones that have in the past harmed me allows me to learn from the hurtful acts of others. To scoop a dead guy story is your view of my finding an avenue to extend the knowledge of other citizens in this civilized society. It is like when I was a US Marine Sgt finding a way to complete the mission learning from the obstacles the enemy so careless inflicted.
Veterans Today just in the name are a means of communication for US military veterans to tell others good and bad. No matter how many times the same wrongful act is repeated until every citizen in the USA believes in correcting it shows the abuser is not the veteran but the system. My opinion may be that Veterans Today is losing the reason it was started. It can be compared to the Veterans Administration harming veterans that it is obligated to care for because over time the public has learned to accept some US Military veterans are not worth civilized societies time. Justification cannot be forgetting as time expires.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
603-781-3839
submitted by Peter in Lee, NH
@ January 19, 2012 - 03:55 PM
iam a 46 year old man who once lived in reading and now living in irvington nj,where im suffering daily at the hands of those who seem to care about me most once a month,i really want to live and get back on my own hopefully move back to reading,hopefully you can assist me as i would like to be able to move by the first of dec when im certain to have my money,if there is anything that you can do please e-mail me at maurice.riley61@yahoo.com thank you.
Type your reply here.Iam so happy that i found out what is realy going on with that shelter in because right now iam currently homeless&unemployed& looking 4 any help that i can get and i was accutiually considering goin 2 this shelter until i read what it is really like
Thanks for letting me know about the Opportunity House. I was thinking about going there also. I am 59, and my adult son is with me also. Neither one of us can find a job. Just got evicted and I feel lost. I wish there was somewhere weall could go that was safe and warm.
Great thank you for telling me that info i was actually gonna call them tomorrow. My family and I are homeless and are staying with people who are eating all the food we buy with our food stamps, and using all our cash items, and they will not write a letter for Co. Asst. so I can cont. to get our benefits so, at a loss in my life right now, i was going to call them and see if they have room , but now i think that would be worse for my children. Now i feel even more loss.
Hi Ivette and all,
I work for a production company based in New York and we're looking to do a documentary about Reading, PA and what's happening with people there. I'd love to talk to any of you about what you're going through. We just want to understand this community. My e-mail address is travis@marketroadfilms.com. You can look us up at marketroadfilms.com to see that we are a legit production house. I hope to speak to you.
Travis
I work for a production company based in New York and we're looking to do a documentary about Reading, PA and what's happening with people there. I'd love to talk to any of you about what you're going through. We just want to understand this community. My e-mail address is travis@marketroadfilms.com. You can look us up at marketroadfilms.com to see that we are a legit production house. I hope to speak to you.
Travis
submitted by Travis in Reading, PA
@ January 03, 2012 - 04:15 PM
You will have a bed, food, be able to take a shower, and do your laundry. they will conect you to the social services you need and they will give you an orientation so you can stand in your feet again and make it. Devin, I will be praying for you everyday until you make it to Opportunity House.
Opportunity House has a website and a telephone. Call Delia, she is the Vicepresident and she is a good person,tell her your situation, her extension is 230. May God be with you always. Ara