Feature Story by Sonja Montiel: 'The Healing Garden'

“Mama, why are there so many white crosses over there?” Zoned out during my commute on the 405 freeway, I have passed the Los Angeles National Cemetery a hundred times. From the freeway, if one was really paying attention to their surroundings, you would have seen what my fourth grader saw – roughly 90,000 war graves on 114 acres of land, a resting place to service members dating back to the Civil War. When I shared this with my daughter, she took matters into her own hands. After writing to all the Veteran hospitals and medical centers in California thanking patients for their service, she received a letter. It was a full page and came with five photos of a beautiful two-acre garden signed by the Patient Garden Manager and Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist of the Tibor Rubin Medical Veterans Affairs Hospital in Long Beach. His name is Scot Moon. This exclusive interview is found in 'The Earth Edition' of AwareNow Magazine: www.awarenowmagazine.com   Written & Narrated by: Sonja Montiel Music by: Sol Rising Produced by: Awareness Ties Topics: Veterans, Horticulture, Rehabilitation