Tag Archives: Veterans Home of California-Barstow

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Helping Other Veterans Comes up Roses for Nurse at Barstow Home

September 8, 2023 · by · in CalVet Team, MyCalVet, Veterans Homes, Veterans Serving Veterans, Women Veterans · Leave a comment

As a licensed vocational nurse (LVN) at the Veterans Home of California-Barstow, U.S. Army veteran Kimberly Malott has a passion for caring for the Home’s veteran residents and their spouses. She also has a passion for passing out roses—at the behest of a veteran resident who routinely bought them for the women at the Home. […]

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Different Wars, Similar Stories of Service and Coming Home

September 1, 2023 · by · in CalVet Team, MyCalVet, Veteran Housing, Veterans Homes, Veterans Serving Veterans · 1 Comment

After 17 years in the U.S. Army, Juan Griffin left with many stories to tell about his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no one he enjoys swapping stories with more, than the veterans who live at the Veterans Home of California-Barstow. “When they tell me about their deployment experiences, they’re the same as […]

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Barstow Chaplain Counts His Blessings as a Veteran Serving Veterans

July 28, 2023 · by · in CalVet Team, MyCalVet, Veterans Homes, Veterans Serving Veterans · 1 Comment

As the Protestant chaplain at the Veterans Home of California—Barstow, U.S. Army veteran William T. Young sees serving veterans as his divine duty. “I joined the Army in 1983 to pay back my missionary ‘debt,’” Young said. He spent the next 32 years ministering to the spiritual needs of soldiers—from Fort Totten in New York; […]