Careful Work: Veteran Fred L. Stanley sews medical labels at the Veterans Administration on Wilshire Boulevard Thursday afternoon. photo by Brandon Wise.
By Kevin Herrera Santa Monica Daily Press
WESTWOOD — When Vietnam veteran Fred L. Stanley visits the 99 Cent Store, he does with pride for he carries with him a reusable grocery bag. Not only does he feel good about protecting the environment by using fewer plastic bags, Stanley also loves the attention he gets when people ask him about his bag, which features the logo of the city of Santa Monica.
That’s because Stanley and his co-workers with the Veterans Administration made the bag and 1,500 others like it for City Hall as part of the Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) Program at the Westwood VA, a program set up decades ago to assist disabled veterans on their road to recovery by teaching them new skills and allowing them to once again become part of something greater than themselves.
"The camaraderie and the chance to be able to come to a place and do something constructive instead of something destructive, accomplishing a particular task, that is rewarding and it helps you get through," Stanley, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), said Thursday as he sat in front of his sewing machine, black and gold cloth labels to his side that would soon be attached to military medical equipment.
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