About Rees Lloyd

Rees Lloyd is a longtime civil rights attorney and veterans activist whose work has been honored by, among others, the California Senate and Assembly, the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, the City of Los Angeles, and numerous civil rights, workers rights, veterans rights, and religious organizations. He is the co-founder and attorney for the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project. As such, he has participated in successful litigation up to the U.S. Supreme Court to save Christian Crosses at veterans memorials, representing the American Legion Department of California, its District 21 and Posts 79 and 291; and representing also the Patriot Outreach veterans service organization based in Kansas, which he currently serves as legal counsel. Attorney Lloyd has testified as a constitutional expert at hearings before the U.S. House and Senate representing the National American Legion. In 2018, the Alliance Defending Freedom, one of America’s premier defenders of religious freedom, honored Lloyd with its “Bronze Service Award” for “over 2,500 hours of pro bono attorney work for the Body of Christ.” Lloyd has received also the Defender of the Faith award of the California Pacific School of Theology, presented by its internationally famed founder, the late Rev. Dr. I.D.E. Thomas. Attorney Lloyd has been profiled, and his work featured, by such varied print media as the Los Angeles Times and American Legion Magazine, and such broadcast media as ABC's Nightline and 20/20, Fox News In The Morning, and, among others, by Sean Hannity. His writings have appeared in a variety of national, regional, and local newspaper, magazine, and other publications. He is a frequent radio commentator, and speaker. [Email: ReesLloydLaw@gmail.com ]

Feb. 22: Reinstate Washington’s Birthday as a National Holiday — On His Real Birthday

By observing Washington’s Birthday as a National Holiday on his actual birth date, Feb. 22, the focus of the nation was on Washington. However, all that changed in 1971. Congress — pressured by federal government bureaucrats and other employees and their unions  desiring another paid three-day holiday — abolished “Washington’s Birthday” as a National Holiday.

By |2024-02-22T00:11:58-05:00February 22nd, 2024|

Pearl Harbor Attack Dec. 7, 1941: Survivor S. J. Hemker Remembered

Although S.J. Hemker may no longer be with us physically, he can be and should be with us spiritually—the spirit of patriotic love of  country and service in its defense that he exemplified, as did and do so many others of the WWII Greatest Generation. Neither his life nor his words should be forgotten, if, as he warns, we Americans are to remain free.

By |2023-12-07T00:14:46-05:00December 7th, 2023|

Veterans Day 2023—Will We “Keep Faith” To Our Veterans?

On Veterans Day 2023, may God bless all the veterans who have served in defense of our freedom in all the wars. And may the country whose freedom they preserved honor them on Veterans Day and on every day. They kept the faith with us; and, as expressed in the haunting words of “Flanders Field,” we must not “break faith” with them.

By |2023-11-10T00:57:33-05:00November 10th, 2023|

GAO: “Deplorable” Living Conditions in Military Barracks

In Democrat run states and cities illegal's that break our laws, sneak across the border are put up in the best fancy hotels in NYC, LA, etc. with 3 meals a day, free cell phones, $2,500 a month, all at taxpayers expense. No wonder they're coming by the millions, while our veterans who sacrificed everything for our country live in deplorable conditions.

By |2023-09-27T00:15:47-04:00September 27th, 2023|

July 4, 1776 and 2023—America Then and Now

Indeed, on this Independence Day, July 4, 2023, we Americans must search our souls and answer the question:  Are we Americans willing to fight, to sacrifice, and to give our lives if necessary, in defense of American freedom now, as the Americans of the Founding Fathers generation did then, on July 4, 1776?

By |2023-07-04T00:13:12-04:00July 4th, 2023|

D-Day: June 6, 1944

Hitler was convinced — and had convinced most of the western world — that his Fortress Europe could turn back and defeat any attempt to invade occupied Europe by sea. So confident were the NAZI socialists, that their top generals were elsewhere—including Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” Hitler’s best fighting general who had gained fame in the Africa campaign.

By |2023-06-06T01:19:08-04:00June 6th, 2023|

Armed Forces Day—the Third Saturday of May

May God bless and keep all those more than 1.3-million patriotic Americans who by their service and sacrifice on active duty in the armed forces protect and defend the freedom of all 340-million of the rest of us Americans.

By |2023-05-20T02:06:26-04:00May 20th, 2023|

Cesar Chavez Holiday—Honoring An American Hero

There are also malicious myths tainting the life and the memory of Cesar Chavez that need to be repudiated, most particularly the lies that he was  not an American but a Mexican national, and that he was a “Communist,” both of which were first promulgated by the John Birch Society. They are utterly false.

By |2023-03-31T00:24:29-04:00March 31st, 2023|

March 29: National Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

There will be many observances, especially by veterans, at posts of the American Legion, VFW, and other veterans organizations, which welcome the participation of non-veterans in honoring all who honorably served. Go, welcome the Vietnam Veterans home, and be welcomed by them.

By |2023-03-29T00:45:02-04:00March 29th, 2023|

A Tale Of Two Cities—Kiev, Ukraine and Palestine, OH

Among other things, the Zelensky government in the Ukraine has now outlawed all other political parties. Zelensky has shut down all media the government does not control. Zelensky has outlawed the ancient Russian Orthodox Church— and Zelensky, who is Jewish, is actually arresting Christian Priests and Nuns.

By |2023-03-02T00:36:59-05:00March 2nd, 2023|

February 3rd is “National Four Chaplains Day” – Why?

On Four Chaplains Day, Feb. 3, 2023— the 80th anniversary of the day in which the Four Chaplains sacrificed their lives “so that others may live.” —will the media again fail to report on it, and the schools fail to teach it, and Americans, in the main, fail to observe it?

By |2023-01-31T00:54:34-05:00January 31st, 2023|

Pearl Harbor Attack Dec. 7, 1941: Survivor S. J. Hemker Remembered

Although S.J. Hemker may no longer be with us physically, he can be and should be with us spiritually—the spirit of patriotic love of  country and service in its defense that he exemplified, as did and do so many others of the WWII Greatest Generation. Neither his life nor his words should be forgotten, if, as he warns, we Americans are to remain free.

By |2022-12-07T00:25:42-05:00December 7th, 2022|

Veterans Day 2022—Will We “Keep Faith” To Veterans?

On Veterans Day 2022, may God bless all the veterans who have served in defense of our freedom in all the wars. And may the country whose freedom they preserved honor them on Veterans Day and on every day. They kept the faith with us; and, as expressed in the haunting words of “Flanders Field,” we must not “break faith” with them.

By |2022-11-10T23:09:57-05:00November 10th, 2022|

Pow MIA Recognition Day: They Should Never Be Forgotten

On National POW-MIA Recognition Day, we Americans, all of us, have the opportunity to remember and honor all of the POWs and all the MIAs, by participating in one of the many observances, or, if not able to do so, to pause in our busy lives to honor and remember them and to stand with their families...

By |2022-09-15T23:14:08-04:00September 15th, 2022|

Is the Biden Regime Going to War—Against the Veterans?

President Joseph Biden began his first days as Commander-in-Chief of America’s armed forces by a disastrous surrender to the Taliban and a disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now, the question must be raised: Is Commander-in-Chief Joseph Biden, who never served a day in defense of America, going to war—against Veterans serving now, and Veterans who have served?

By |2022-07-19T00:02:49-04:00July 19th, 2022|

July 4th 1776 and 2022—America Then and Now

On this July 4th 2022, 246th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence and the birth day of our United States of America, and on every day, we Americans ought to remember, honor, emulate and give thanks for the patriots of July 4th 1776 — from Gen. George Washington, the Father of Our Country, to the least ranked unknown soldier of the Revolutionary Army, whose service and sacrifice created our freedom.

By |2022-07-04T01:04:32-04:00July 4th, 2022|

Memorial Day 2022: Will We Keep America Free?

Memorial Day is a day to remember what should be remembered every day–the  service and sacrifice of the more than 1.3-million American veterans who have given their their lives in war so that we, their posterity, might live as free Americans.

By |2022-05-28T01:42:05-04:00May 28th, 2022|

Cesar Chavez Holiday—Honoring An American Hero

I am greatly indebted to Cesar Chavez, especially for the example of his humble, selfless life in service for others. I will always walk in his shadow. May the God he so faithfully served bless and keep him. May the country he so faithfully served, always remember and honor him.

By |2022-03-31T00:13:02-04:00March 31st, 2022|

Feb. 15, 1973: American POW’s Come Home With Honor—A Day To Remember

I confess that I am greatly concerned about what is happening in our country today. No one seems to be held accountable. We have a debacle in Afghanistan in which Americans were left behind. We have an invasion at our southern border. We have rising inflation. We have crime escalating all across the country. We have mandates telling us...

By |2022-02-15T15:35:38-05:00February 15th, 2022|

Pearl Harbor Attack: Survivor S. J. Hemker Remembers

Although S.J. Hemker may no longer be with us physically, he can be and should be with us spiritually—the spirit of patriotic love of  country and service in its defense that he exemplified, as did and do so many others of the WWII Greatest Generation. Neither his life nor his words should be forgotten, if, as he warns, we Americans are to remain free.

By |2021-12-07T00:38:35-05:00December 7th, 2021|

Veterans Day 2021—Will We “Keep Faith” to Veterans?

On Veterans Day 2021, may God bless all the veterans who have served in defense of our freedom in all the wars. And may the country whose freedom they preserved honor them on Veterans Day and on every day. They kept the faith with us; and, as expressed in the haunting words of “Flanders Field,” we must not “break faith” with them.

By |2021-11-11T00:31:09-05:00November 11th, 2021|

Memorial Day 2021: Will We Keep America Free?

But Memorial Day 2021 differs from past Memorial Day observances. Our nation is more divided on this Memorial Day than perhaps any time since the Civil War. Indeed, the country has been transformed from “one nation under God” into a divided nation without God, resulting in seething, increasingly violent, animus and mutual distrust.

By |2021-05-29T01:26:53-04:00May 29th, 2021|

Cesar Chavez Holiday—Honoring An American Hero

March 31 is an official State holiday in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and is observed in several other States (including Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin)  in honor of the birth on March 31, 1927, of an extraordinary American — Cesar Estrada Chavez, the late co-founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America who became a legend in his own time in the civil rights era.

By |2021-03-31T01:16:54-04:00March 31st, 2021|

Veterans Day 2020 —Will We “Keep Faith” to Veterans?

On this Veterans Day 2020, may God bless all the veterans who have served in defense of our freedom in all the wars. And may the country whose freedom they preserved honor them on Veterans Day and on every day. They kept the faith with us; and, as expressed in the haunting words of "Flanders Field," we must not "break faith" with them.

By |2020-11-11T01:21:39-05:00November 11th, 2020|

The Spirit of WWII Generation Needs to Stop This Misguided Generation

The reality must be recognized: What is happening is the real, revolutionary,  thing: Black Lives Matter, its allied domestic terrorists of Antifa, their affiliated racial or Marxist allies, are not “reformist organizations” and individuals attempting to make America better. They are revolutionary organizations and individuals seeking to overthrow America

By |2020-08-22T02:00:24-04:00August 22nd, 2020|

Cesar Chavez Holiday—Honoring An American Hero

There are also  malicious myths tainting the life and the memory of Cesar Chavez that need to be repudiated, most particularly the lies that he was  not an American but a Mexican national, and that he was a “Communist,” both of which were first promulgated by the John Birch Society. They are utterly false.

By |2020-03-31T01:40:33-04:00March 31st, 2020|

Pearl Harbor Survivor S.J. Hemker Remembrance of Dec. 7, 1941: “A Day Which Will Live In Infamy”

December 7, 2019 ,Pearl Harbor Day, marks the 78th anniversary of the Japanese air attack on U.S. naval and air installations at Pearl Harbor, HI, at 7:53 a.m., Dec. 7, 1941 — without a declaration of war. It was then the worst attack on American soil in history: Some 2,403 died, 2008 of them Navy personnel; another 1,178 were wounded.

By |2019-12-07T02:35:21-05:00December 7th, 2019|

POW MIA Recognition Day:  They Should Never Be Forgotten

By Act of Congress in 1979, the third Friday of September, while not a national holiday, is observed annually as “POW-MIA RECOGNITION DAY.” Its purpose is to remember and honor all those who suffered as prisoners of war, and all those many thousands who were and are still missing in action.

By |2019-09-20T02:14:37-04:00September 20th, 2019|

Cesar Chavez Holiday—Honoring An American Hero

March 31 is an official State holiday in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and is observed in several other States, in honor of the birth on March 31, 1937, of an extraordinary American — Cesar Estrada Chavez, the late co-founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America who became a legend in his own time in the civil rights era.

By |2019-03-30T02:25:43-04:00March 30th, 2019|
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