According to numbers collected on a single night last January, 57,849 Veterans were living homeless on the streets of this nation’s cities, which is an eight percent decline since 2012 and a 24 percent decline since 2010. The homeless are often looked down upon in American society, and the true tragedy is seeing our heroic service members fall to this. What we often don’t understand is what would cause our service members to give up on their ambition and dreams and to live outside on the corner of Main Street. Many of us do not understand this because we do not know, as our Veterans do, the experience of war. Read more on VAntage Point at: 1.usa.gov/L5WKjh
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:00:00 +0000