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1 Out of 4 Homeless Are Veterans
WASHINGTON — Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 7th, 2007 | Category: Collateral, Corruption, DOD, Fox News, Health Care, Hypocracy, Oversight, Promises, Public Health, Statistics, VA, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Walter Reed, War Cost, cover up, displaced persons, injustice, mental health, military, negligence, resonsibility, veterans, veterans benefits | Comments (5)

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Posted by bosskitty August 31st, 2007 | Category: Casualties, Congress, Doggett, House Armed Services Committee, House of Representatives, Hutchinson, Ortiz, PTSD, Reyes, Senate, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, Texas, VA, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Viet Nam, War Cost, military, resonsibility, suicide, veterans, veterans benefits | Comments (2)

Word this morning that my very dear friend, neighbor and co-worker for over 20 years has ended his life. He has been treated for extreme PTSD, from his Viet Nam experience as a Marine, for over 3 decades and diagnosed as “seriously mentally disabled”. The VA, veteran support groups and all [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 26th, 2007 | Category: PTSD, Time Bomb, VA, VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Viet Nam, War Cost, suicide, veterans, veterans benefits | Comments (14)