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Kola Akingbade For

Mayor 2024

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Veterans Care

Respect for our Veterans

Las Vegas is a HUGE military town.

Our society MUST give Veterans an opportunity to tell their stories. We MUST respect veteran’s service to our country and to us, their unique feelings, their individual concerns, and any suggestions they might offer. Our ATTITUDE towards them should be that of Gratitude. Thank you for your service.

 

The men and women in uniform sacrificed their lives, their families, their health, their own individuality, their peace and joy, and their own freedom, so we all might have peace and joy and freedom in our own lives and in their beloved country.

 

Very often, after they completed their tour of duties, or after retirements, or after sustaining serious injuries both physically, emotionally or mentally, they returned home to cruelty, abuses and disappointment and an unwelcoming community. No one wants them as neighbors, and they struggle to secure an employment even for positions they’re already qualified for.

 

They come back home to prejudice, to a society that arguably sees them as a ‘nut cases’ crazy, and unstable. But they have seen crazy things, and witnessed things that the human eye was not created to witness. They’ve witnessed and experienced devastation and multination of human bodies. They’ve seen too many deaths. They’ve seen their best friends, their brothers and compatriots blown into pieces by bomb blasts.

 

Imagine, after all that, those Veterans who survived this trauma and escaped death, and loss of their families, they come back home to their country, and their own people rejected them; and to a society that is afraid of them and are prejudice towards them. Folks say Veterans cannot be trusted, they’re crazy, they’re shell shocked, and they’ve lost their humanity.

 

Still, some Veterans excelled; some rose to the highest height of excellence, some become law makers, Senators, and Governors. Some becomes advocates and advisors to fellow veterans; some become very successful businesspersons, and some rise to the highest office of even becoming advisors to our President’s most Trusted Cabinet Secretaries.

 

Unfortunately, some Veterans are just not as fortunate, unable to reintegrate back into society. The Scars of Battlefields are REAL, and the impact of those scars are long-lasting in the lives of those who carry and live with those scars, as do their families, even among the most fortunate Veterans.

 

PTSD is a real thing.

To cope with this painful life-changing scenario, especially when they’re not being welcomed and respected in their own community, some Veterans turn to alcohol, drugs, and other mind-altering substances, and some minds got altered resulting in increased Mental Illness cases among our Veterans.

 

As Mayor, I will respect you, and treat you as my own family and friends. I will honor your sacrifices, and I PROMISE to make the resources of this City available to you and help you in the best ways possible. I’m not a Veteran, so I don’t know what Veterans are feeling or what their immediate and lasting needs are, so I will seek the advice of credible Veterans to help us shape our policies and execute our LOVE plan for Veterans.

 

I call our Veterans our Heroes. They’re the Bravest among us, so from the bottom of my heart, I want to Thank you for your Service and Bravery.

God Bless our Veterans, God Bless Las Vegas.

Our Seniors

We will educate our senior population in person, through television, radio, magazines and other media to teach them about “scammers” and their methods of operations. They will be aware of how these perpetrators work, the language they use to steal from them, leaving them penniless.

 

We will assign law enforcement, and other experts in the field. We MUST protect our senior population. After working so many years to accumulate what they have, we will NOT tolerate thieves who target this population, and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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