You know something is important if “91 years young” Hal Bartlett comes from Bountiful to Salt Lake City — and its not for a doctor’s appointment.
The U.S. Navy veteran was at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday to talk about the importance of volunteer drivers for the local facility. If he had not had someone to drive him to his appointments years ago, he simply would not have gone to them, opting to miss out on medical care, altogether.
Bartlett also knows not every veteran in the Salt Lake Valley has the privilege of a free roundtrip ride to the VA. That needs to change, according to Bartlett…