Thursday 17 April 2014

US veterans: returning soldiers now battling homelessness

US veterans: returning soldiers now battling
homelessness - Channel 4 News: 
This is the true narrative behind the 'Our brave boys' claptrap of the chickenhawks. John McCain anybody?
"But now, almost three years on from the US troop withdrawal from Iraq, Randy and tens of thousands of his comrades from that war and America’s other 21st century conflict – Afghanistan – find themselves home. But homeless. 
An estimated 48,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were homeless in 2013, according to figures from the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Although homelessness among military veterans in general is in decline – down by a quarter in the last four years – the current generation of combat veterans are finding themselves homeless at a rising rate."

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