John Lee Affairs Quotations

The Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs is excited about the opportunity for our State's citizens to recognize and say 'Thank You' to the thousands of veterans and military personnel who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.

The state does not create veterans, the country does, and so the debt that is owed to our veterans and families is not a state debt, it is a national debt. So everywhere possible where a veteran is in a nursing home or a boarding home that is a care setting, we should first look to the Department of Veteran Affairs rather than the state to incur the costs.