The Department of Veterans Affairs Fort Howard VAMC Property has been wasting away for nearly two decades. It is time to make something good happen there for veterans, plus the local community, on that Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco River shoreline acreage. Either develop the veterans focused community that has been promised, or turn it into a park. This situation is a miserable fiasco. The reasons for that need to be fully investigated, and publicly reported on.

A veterans community there will have the effects of enhancing and preserving lives of vets and their loved ones. It will help prevent suicides by veterans. Vets all over the world know about the failed residential, retail and medical office development, and it hurts them. Vets who could be living there in the proposed individual living, assisted living, and nursing home units can be more good for each others' health and lives than bad - as is normal in veterans housing.

Here are photos and videos of Fort Howard, Maryland:

Collection: Fort Howard, Maryland (flickr.com)

Here are blog posts about the fiasco:

The Way That I See It Is...: Search results for fort howard (davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com)

The United States government has lost millions of dollars on that failed project. Private American companies and citizens suffer millions of dollars in losses, also.

All that American Military Veterans who want to live there are loosing - everyday for 19 years - is incalculable and deeply painful.

The Department of Veterans Affairs must make good on their responsibilities to have Ft. Howard be developed into something positive. Beginning right now!