Fairly Recent Video of The Fort Howard VAMC

The video is appropriately a year-and-a-half old, from early 2018. I did not shoot it, but it is one of the most recent videos and is one of many videos shot of the old VA hospital property, then published online. I chose this one to use because it has drone aerial footage plus ground level footage shot inside the buildings, which gives us a clear view of the horrible mess the Fort Howard VAMC property has been deteriorating into for more than a decade. The video's narrator says that there is a vigilant security guard on duty, which must mean that the video shooting guys snuck in some way, because they sure should not have been given permission to enter that deteriorating, heavily vandalized property with its hazardous hospital building. You'll see many of the dangerous hazards in the video, but we can't see the various airborne dangers, like mold spores, that are probably contaminating the airs throughout all the buildings. 

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At 00.18, you see arson damage to the top part of one of the hundred-and-some-year old, old-time-craftsmen built, luxury homes originally occupied by army officers and their families. Later, the VA housed doctors and their families in those houses.

At 00.53, in the upper right corner, you see what is left of an arsoned house - the rear, white wall & chimney. There had been a similar house on each side of that destroyed one's only wall left standing, but those two beautiful and very valuable waterfront homes were arson burned to the ground.

At 3:51, you see fire damage in the main hospital building, which is from the first arson fire at the Ft. Howard VA property.

At 5:06, you look straight down the stairwell where - too many - hospitalized nets jumped to commit suicide. The heavy screening you see was installed to completely block anyone from getting over the railing to jump. I don't know when that screening was installed, but it must have been shortly after the hospital opened in 1943 - when mostly seriously wounded World War Two vets filled the hospital. John David Infantino may either be a sociopath or psychopath, because he does not care about the mass of suffering experienced by patients, and their loved ones, during the years of Ft. Howard being a veterans hospital. All us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.

At 5:58, you see the area where the lease holder's workers sat dumpsters, when they were cleaning out some of the junk from the hospital building.

Back in 2004, had the VA not chosen scam artist John D. Infantino as the Ft. Howard developer but had chosen an actual developer who possesses a proven record of successes in real estate redevelopment, similar to what the current lease holder & developer Sam Himmelrich has, I may very likely have been living in an apartment there for about a decade. That plus the facts: my paternal grandparents met there during World War One; I've had friends and relatives in the area all my life; I was a patient in that VA hospital three times; plus I have participated in community volunteer works alongside many other people in the county park next to the VA property, all make development of a veterans community on Ft. Howard, or it's failure, something that creates powerful effects upon my life. I love the place & people and cherish their, my and our histories of Fort Howard, Maryland.