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8,000 Homeless Veterans on the Streets of LA

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Source: CBS News

(CBS News)

LOS ANGELES - In four tours in Iraq, Sgt. Freddie Cordova saw friends blown up by IEDs, and learned to kill or be killed.

"What keeps you warm in Iraq during the winter is your hate," he tells CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. Back home in 2008, he was diagnosed with severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

"I know for a fact that I am different now," Cordova says, "that I experience anger and hate at a whole 'nother level."

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LA is the homeless veteran capital of the U.S. with more than 8,000 on city streets. It makes Cordova angry again especially since just blocks away sits almost 400 acres -- half the size of Central Park -- donated to the U.S. government after the Civil War expressly to provide housing for disabled veterans.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/27/eveningnews/main20074834.shtml#ixzz1QWucZlBu

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