Caring For Our Veterans: VNSNY Salutes Those Who Served
Joseph Vitti, Director of the Hospice Veterans Program at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, liaison, salutes a VNSNY Hospice patient and WWII veteran following medals ceremony. Subscribe in a reader By Chandra Wilson, November 9, 2020 One warm summer day, in a New York high-rise apartment, a bedridden World War II veteran receiving care from Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice and Palliative Care received an unexpected surprise. The veteran, Edward Flanagan, had enlisted in the Navy after his beloved older brother died in combat and went on to see action in the Pacific theater. He later became a successful bank executive and active member of the community in his hometown of New Rochelle, New York—but like most war veterans, he was shadowed by memories, some more painful than others. It also saddened Mr. Flanagan that his Naval medals and discharge papers had gone missing. VNSNY Hospice Veterans Program Director Joseph Vitti was at his bedside with duplic...