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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 07:48 AM Original message |
Homeless vets: a hidden crisis |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. "They should go AWOL. Republicon chickenhawks have great houses. Smirk." - Commander AWOL |
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Sadie4629 (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. My father was a WWII vet |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. GI Bill. When the World War II vets came home there were programs |
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Sadie4629 (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Wasn't the GI Bill still around post-Vietnam? |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Researching that, but ran across this article while doing so: |
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Sadie4629 (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 12:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I knew that it had changed a lot for today's vets |
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Sapere aude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 03:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. The GI bill did not help with mental problems or unemployment. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 03:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. US troops in WWII saw no more than 152 days of Combat |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Source, please.... |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, but yellow ribbon car magnet sales are at an all-time high |
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broadcaster (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. cynical, but also totally true.... |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. This has been going on for sometime. Lots of press for the injured but this |
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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. IIRC, last November the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Most of the homeless people in my hood are vets. And right now |
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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 05:22 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. That's just one of many, my Friend. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 11:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. This is what happens when you put corporate frontmen |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. Hardly hidden |
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Decruiter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. The return of our Veterans from this illegal war is going to make Vietnam look like a |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. Universal health care would fix a lot of this... |
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bamacrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
18. More like an ignored crisis. n/t |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
20. This absolutely INFURIATES me! |
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