CBS: One in three homeless Americans is a veteran

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/25/eveningnews/main2607024.shtml

More Veterans Calling The Streets Home
An Estimated 200,000 U.S. War Veterans Are Homless

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On any given night in this country, an estimated 200,000 are living on the streets.

Many served in Vietnam, but experts expect the number of Iraq veterans to swell in coming years.

The Veterans Administration can provide beds to only 14,000 veterans, though it told CBS News its shelters aren't filled to capacity and that it offers what it called "very good" services to homeless veterans.

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"They train you to transfer from a civilian to a killing machine," said Elgoarany. "When you get out they should have trained me to go back into being a civilian."

The Army says one in three Iraq veterans will return home with mental health issues. Sooner or later, caring for them will become another cost of war.

[varkam]

1. Good grief

It's a shame that we, as a country, let this happen. K&R

[The Straight Story]

2. The Rw loves em while they're killing, after that they have no use for em

damned shame.

[Solly Mack]

3. I'd like to say I didn't see this coming

and I'm certain a good many politicians will claim they didn't

[BayCityProgressive]

4. pathetic.

With all the money we have spent on mass murder in Iraq, homelessness could have been ended here in America.:banghead: Instead, we decided to MURDER hundreds of thousands and DESTROY THEIR homes! This country is fucking sick! I hope Democrats bring up the issue of homelessness. It is truly sickening that the richest country in the world has so many hundreds of thousands of homeless. We are rich financially and bankrupt morally.

[Solly Mack]

5. It really is pathetic

the so-called - but mostly self-styled - "greatest nation on earth" and just look at how we treat people...

[obaman08]

6. It is because they are not trained for jobs relating to civilian life..

4 years and they get no training... When they get out the only thing available is 8 hr warehouse jobs. Look in the classifieds and see what the wages are for most jobs that someone that only has training to fight are capable of performing. Granted some get the experience, but many dont.

[Monkeyman]

7. Numbers

250,000 Homeless Veterans
3500 Homeless from the current war zones
15,000 Families These number are from the Committees of the House and Senate that VVA goes in front of. So that number of 200,000 is wrong the VA own numbers show more

I want you to watch a tape made two years ago by Senator Obama for our shelter hear the numbers then

http://www.helpaveteran.org