The VA Treatment of Vets MOM Corned Beef Hash & Potato's

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land, I've been busy and today I want to share a couple things with you the first is my cousin passed away on the 15th and he was just in his seventy's.  We are on our way to Ring Gold, Ga to visit with family.When members of your family start passing it does give you time to reflect on what is important in life. How can you put into a few words a lifetime of living? I think the most important thing is something we call love and if you've been loved in your life and know it then you had the greatest gift that God can give you.  My cousin was what I called a Gentle Giant.  If he had the right guidance when he was a child he would have been a great Baseball player no doubt in my mind.  He did pass that on to other children during his lifetime. He was opinionated, but how else do you make changes in this world if you can't tell people what you think?  I Say RIP cuz and blessings to you and your family
Well opinionated brings me to another person who was opinionated and that was my mother.  However with that said without her being that way she wouldn't of been able to help Veterans during her lifetime.  After our father passed she turned all her focus on VA benefits and fighting the VA for the rights of all veterans, including her.  She was appointed by the governors for two states, Oklahoma and South Carolina to inform veterans what their rights were under the law.  Veterans would come to her or contact her and she'd go toe to toe with the head of the veterans affairs in D.C.  When we lived in West Virginia she'd fly in to visit and off we'd go the Washington to talk to congressmen or senators and even the head of the VA and I can't remember his name but he was elected later to hold office and he was in a wheel chair. Was it Max Cleland? Am not sure any who she went toe to toe with them telling them of the mistreatment of veterans in the hospitals   The Veterans Affairs office has a long history of mistreatment's to our vets,  She started her fight for rights for women when she had to have surgery and there was not a private ward for women or even private baths to use.  She was so mad.  That was Tulsa at the time she lived there.  From then on out until she died she'd tell veterans what the laws were for them to fight back the veteran affairs office.  She was in  the Tulsa VA hospital so much they finally just gave her a office at the hospital so vets could go and ask her questions and she would advise them on what to do about it.  She wrote their letters and whatever they needed.  Then when she moved to South Carolina the governor had her doing the same things here for vets.  She always told kids who were thinking of enlisting to not always believe the promises they get when the enlist and be ready to fight for their rights.  When she died I never saw so many awards from presidents and governors listed in her name.  She did this all on her own and used her own money and was never paid a dime.  She had lots of invitations to go to the white house by presidents but she never went  We still have all her paperwork and she even helped with the Women s memorial at Arlington, we'd go and talk to female generals about that  She helped raise the money for that project and her name was Jeanne.Varney Newby.  There are lots of stories on my mom.  Any who I see the VA has not changed she always said it was cheaper for them to just let us die that way they didn't have to pay the benefits.  Well one of the dishes my mom used to make alot of is canned Corn Beef with potatoes and it was so yummy so I hope you enjoy this recipe am short of time today or I could go on and on.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Come like my face book page,"Cooking With Madjon & Friends", come follow my on twitter @madjon51.

Corned Beef Hash

1 can Corn Beef without/potatoes
1 onion diced
Salt and Pepper to taste
3 or 4 small potatoes, peeled & diced
3 cloves Garlic, minced
eggs for topping

Place the beef in a heated pan with about 2 tsp. oil.  Add the onions and garlic and cook till the onions are clear in color.  Add your diced potatoes and cover, stir mix, until the potatoes are tender and brown.  Salt & Pepper to taste.  Place your eggs on top of the mix and cook covered until your egg whites are done.

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These are pictures of us in DC with the Military at 8th & I.