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# Panel on Veterans' Issues and Brentwood VA Property Set for March 21 at SMC
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030906-story-20060309/
- Published: 2006-03-09T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:20:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Pico, #archive-import, Homelessness

*By Daily Press staff*

Veterans of war are in for a fight to save a facility that was intended to be for them.

A panel discussion on the pressures facing veterans — including the fight to save Veterans Administration property in Brentwood — will be held at 11:15 a.m., March 21 in art lecture hall 214, 1900 Pico Blvd. The discussion, “Coming Home: Issues Facing Veterans in Society Today,” is free.

Panelists Frank Juarez, Keith Jeffreys, Jessica Landy and James Maddox of Citizens for Veterans Rights will discuss the various pressures on military veterans that include homelessness, alcohol and drug abuse, post-traumatic stress syndrome and unemployment. Panelists will discuss their experiences and offer possible solutions to what they see as critical issues.

SMC English professor Daniel Cano — a Vietnam War veteran and author of Shifting Loyalties, which is about the Vietnam experience from a Latino perspective — will moderate the panel discussion.

The event is sponsored by the SMC English department, Office of Public Programs and the Scholars Program for honors students.

Call (310) 434-4303 for more information.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 9, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)