Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?

America's promise to "Support the Troops" ends the moment they take off the uniform and try to make the transition to civilian life.

On any given night 200,000 U.S. veterans sleep homeless on the streets of America. One out of every four people -- and one out of every three men -- sleeping in a car, in front of a shop door, or under a freeway overpass has worn a military uniform. Some like Brantley have been on the streets for years. Others are young and women returning home wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan, quickly slipping through the cracks. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 3, 2009

The article is mostly anecdotal. The statistics are startling, but unattributed. The article advocates for caring for veterans, but fails to advocate for avoiding illegal and immoral wars of choice that create the damaged veterans.

Nobody comes home from a war uninjured.

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