Why Does Johnny Come Marching Homeless?

[RedEarth]

Source: (AP

LEEDS, Mass. (AP) - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident - car crash, broken collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife's new job but away from his best friends.

And then self-destruction: He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat. He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest. He would pull out his gun, a .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol. He would lovingly clean it, or just look at it and put it away. Sometimes place it in his mouth.

"I don't know what to do anymore," his wife, Anna, told him one day. "You can't be here anymore."

Peter Mohan never did find a steady job after he left Iraq. He lost his wife - a judge granted their divorce this fall - and he lost his friends and he lost his home, and now he is here, in a shelter.



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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. War.

It's not a brain teaser.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. just tap on the window of an SUV with a ribbon sticker

I am sure they will help you back on your feet - that is assuming they don't shoot you.

[water]

3. That's actually a very good point.

It would expose the fact that "pro-war" does not mean "pro-soldier".

[IsItJustMe]

4. Yep, support the troops as long as they are over there fighting your feel good, I'm a Republican and

whipped you baby killing dems asses fricked up right wing deranged WWJD foot ball game ideology. But when the shit hits the fan soldier, and this war that we sent you to has royally fricked up your life, get a job you gutter bum. Take some personal responsibility looser.

The Republican mentality in a nutshell. Sorry for the rant.

[Quantess]

5. Republicans will point out that it's clearly his own fault for being homeless.

Without pausing to consider why a veteran would have difficulty adjusting to civilian life.

[midnight]

6. That or something equal to do nothing but blame.

[flamin lib]

7. Veterans are 11% of the population and 25% of the homeless. It's a

no-brainer. Veterans suffer the same slings and arrows as the population at large and then they have combat as well.

Duh.

[Chovexani]

8. But--but Bill O'Falafel said there's no such thing

As homeless vets. :eyes: