Some GA veterans may soon be homeless

(Photo: Carl Zornes)

Governor Sonny Perdue honored Georgia veterans in the State Capitol today by declaring November 11th Veterans Day.

“That’s what Veterans Day’s about. Men and women and courage and valor – individual and as a group, fighting for freedom in America.”

But some of the less fortunate veterans may soon be homeless.

Because of state budget cuts, residents of the Georgia War Veterans Home in Milledgeville could be without a place to live come November 30th. Dale Parham says he's one of them.

“On August 28 we was given the eviction notice, in the form of a letter, asking us to be out – to vacate the premises by November the 30^th.”

Parham attended the ceremony with hopes of speaking with the Governor. But right after the event ended, Gov. Perdue was quickly escorted away.

Democrat leader of the State Senate Robert Brown said that it's all a matter of how the state's money is budgeted.

"You're talking about $2.7 million out of a $20 million budget. A budget in which you have programs like Go Fish Georgia. A budget in which you have horsefarms and other things that we are funding. And you are saying that you can't spend $2.7 million to help veterans who have fought and bled for this country... That is poppycock."

Brown said he hopes public attention will get the governor to intervene and stop the evictions.