Vietnam Veteran Gets To Stay in Nursing Home After All

After dispute with VA, local vet gets to stay in home 
News4Jax
Author: Francesca Amiker, reporter
Published On: Apr 17 2015

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

The owner of the nursing home said that he couldn’t stand to see the vets go and in the last two weeks the home was able to work out a payment schedule with Veteran Affairs.

A local Army veteran, who was almost forced out of the Mandarin nursing home where he lives because of a payment dispute with the Department of Veterans Affairs, still has a home.

Vietnam veteran Duane Wilson, 75, lives at the Terrace of Jacksonville and was told about a month ago that he would have to find somewhere else to live.

Wilson and other veterans were told to get out by Friday because the nursing home was considering ending its contract with the VA because it owed them back pay. But just three days before Wilson and the other veterans at the nursing home were supposed to move out, David Wilson, Duane’s son, received a ray of sunshine. read more here