Today I met with Steve in my Long Beach office.  Steve is 62 and currently lives at the VA hospital in Long Beach.   Steve is  a Viet Nam  war veteran and was living in a shelter prior to being admitted to the VA.   The reason why he was in my office is because he was assaulted with a baseball bat and required emergency brain surgery.  Obviously I’m sickened by how our Viet Nam vets were treated when they came back from the war but to see a guy like this get clobbered by a bunch of hoodlums is pretty unbelievable.   Steve uses cannabis for chronic headaches as a result of his surgery.

One of the things Steve asked myself and Mark who works with me in Long Beach is if we could help him find a place to live when he gets out of the hospital.

If you know of a good shelter for Steve maybe post a comment and we can help him out.