Ontario-based veterans advocate rallies for Annapolis County woman

Published on September 09, 2014

TORBROOK (TC Media) A national veterans advocate, working on behalf of an Annapolis Valley woman, is urging the government to start putting people over process.

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Leah Greene, a 36-year-old private, couldnt find the support she needed from the military and has turned to Barry Westholm, a national veterans advocate.

Leah Greene, a 36-year-old private from Torbrook, who was stationed at 14 Wing Greenwood, says she was lost in the shuffle and couldnt find the support she needed after a spinal cord injury ended her military career and left her in chronic pain.

She says the military abandoned her at a time when she needed it the most.

Desperate, Greene contacted Barry Westholm, a well-known Ontario-based veterans advocate last fall, to help her pull her life back together.

Westholm made headlines last year after his resignation from the Joint Personnel Support Unit (JPSU) and more recently his break with the Conservative party, openly criticizing the government for its poor treatment of ill and injured military personnel.

The JPSU is a military branch created to help ill and injured military members, but with so many veterans now returning from tours of duty with injuries and emotional crisis, Westholm says the department is often too overwhelmed and understaffed to be much help.

Injured In 2009

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Ontario-based veterans advocate rallies for Annapolis County woman