âFixing the VA is going to take more than this bill,â said John Wells, the director of legal and legislative affairs for the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association. âUntil the VA is purged of its bureaucratic resistance to facts, nothingâs going to get any better.â.
Lewis County is located in northwestern New York State, slightly east of due north from Syracuse. The eastern part of the county is in the Adirondack Park. A good portion of the Tug Hill Plateau is in the western part of the county. The county is home to the Black River Valley.
Lewis County in southwest Washington can truly be called the âmother of counties.â Half of the present-day Washington and of British Columbia were carved from its original borders. But the countyâs location astride the Cowlitz Trail between the Columbia River and Puget Sound meant that communities with good water access would develop first.