A Handout for the Yellow Ribbon Suppport The Troops REPUKES!

[leftchick]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20050223/capt.27125ba638f5bb0c39a6d53bf1602824.pjpeg

Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men.

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Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (news - web sites) says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population. In West Virginia, where Marsh now struggles to rebuild his life, one in nine people is a veteran — the highest per capita rate in the nation in the 2000 census.


Marsh, 48 and single, has a job at a nursing home but earns too little for a place of his own. For months, he's lived at Scott Place, a shelter overlooking a town of about 20,000 — the town where he spent several years of his childhood and the closest thing to home.


Marsh doesn't mind the lack of privacy in the men's quarters, a third-floor maze connected by doorless doorways, or sharing a 14-by-14 space. "In the Navy, we'd have nine to 12 people in a room this big," he says.


And his bathroom has both a shower and tub. "The other guys just have showers," he says.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20050228/ap_on_re_us/homeless_veterans

[Why Syzygy]

1. Be All You Can Be

now there's a career for you.

[Patriot Acts]

2. A couple more years of Bush...

...and 1/3 of the entire country will be homeless! ;)

[mopaul]

3. Support the Crippled, Blinded, Burnt, Blasted, Shattered, Troops

support them with their new artificial legs, and their new disfigured faces and their new mental scars that can't be seen, and be sure to support their wives and kids, struggling to deal with suddenly having a wheelchair bound or maddened former breadwinner at home.

support the unemployed troops, the broken and homeless troops, who went to a war that wasn't necessary, against a nation that never attacked us, who sacrificed for lies and war profiteers and assholes.

[Ironpost]

7. I am one of those. Only it was called Viet Namn

when we are in control of our destinies this time we must not let our guard down. We became so complacent we didn't see this shit storm coming. It was so nice to have relative peace for 20 plus years.

[Hans Delbrook]

4. SO much easier to slap a yellow magnet on your car

than to DO something that would actually help a veteran. Support is shown through meaningless slogans and not criticizing a president who did everything in his power to avoid becoming a combat veteran.

[leftchick]

5. omg... look at this thing

Freedom isn't free! But Homelessness is!!!

[mopaul]

6. nice, real nice

this isn't patriotism, it's cultism.

[leftchick]

8. speaking of cultism.... This is way beyond bizzare...

it is from defenselink.mil too!!! Our Tax Dollars pay for this shit???

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. How apropos to have all of that propaganda on a gas guzzler. n/t

[leftchick]

12. Have you all SEEN these POS monsters WE are paying for???

I want to know who drives them. I suppose they are parked and used by Military recruiters?

[Hans Delbrook]

13. Freedom isn't free but DON'T ask them to make a personal sacrifice!

Yes, pay for freedom w/ someone else's blood, someone else's sacrifice, someone else's vigilance.

It kills me that these types of yahoos don't even know what makes a country free:

- A Free press
- Free and fair elections
- Freedom of Choice (and I don't mean 52 kinds of breakfast cereal), of Assembly, from Want...

Arrrghh - what's the point. Freedom to them means cheap gas and world domination.

[Ian David]

9. Can we put together a whole list of why Bush doesn't support our troops?

It would be great to have a whole brochure that fits on one or two sides of an 8x5 sheet of paper.

[riverwalker]

11. I'd like to see

a semi truck covered with 1,499 yellow ribbon magnets, with the name and birthdate of every dead soldier written on them.