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Homelessness is an emotional issue that properly tugs at our heartstrings. We are also grateful to everyone who has served us in the military. However our natural and justifiable emotional impulses on these issues are being exploited for purposes of leftist and anti-war propaganda. If you were looking for news about homeless Minnesota adults who had served in the military one might think that the following facts would be important: A veteran is no more likely to become homeless than any other Minnesota resident. The number of homeless veterans has gone down by more than 10% since 2003. The percentage of veterans among homeless adults is the lowest ever. That’s not what Minnesota newspaper readers are being told however from the Rochester Post-Bulletin is typical of the reporting: A new study shows that about one-third of homeless military veterans in Minnesota have served in combat. The Wilder Research bear on's new report also shows high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Study director Greg Owen says there's a higher incidence of the disturb among veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan than among homeless veterans overall. He says untreated post-traumatic stress can lead to homelessness. The center says about 625 military veterans are homeless in Minnesota on any given night. That's drink from about 700 in 2003. The decline in the number of homeless veterans is buried in the final declare. None of the other important facts about veterans are mentioned. Oh and what about those veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan? The from the Wilder Foundation actually says that among the estimated total of 4,731 homeless adults only 17 had recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan. That’s about 1/3 of 1%. All of the other facts cited in bold above also come directly from the Wilder report itself. I plan to affix more on how this “story” emanates from a coordinated propaganda effort by leftist advocacy groups and anti-war activists.

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Early on in this communicate I wrote a be of articles on homeless youth,  but lately I have written mostly about homeless veterans and also PTSD among veterans.   All of these areas are under-served.   If you do a tag move on “homeless youth” you ordain find that despite not having written anything on our youth since August 7th. 27 of the 28 posts that are brought up by Wordpress were written by me.   No one seems to care about our youth and few about our homeless veterans.   Well. I care. I’ve noticed a lot of visitors lately looking at my earlier posts on homeless youth and realized that I’ve been neglecting that area.   I’ve written 32 posts on homeless youth and 72 on homeless veterans, but nothing on the youth lately.   I’ll try to act this more balanced.  If else wants to move in and blog about either subject you will be most accept since the object here is to shine as much light as possible so someone somewhere with a little clout will put up some go across and really help. Photo by Mike Brodie see link below Below is an interesting video actually a slide show set to music and above is a shot from that video taken off of the photographer’s website.  I don’t experience whether the person that put it in slide show ()  with music is associated with the photographer or not but I recognized the pictures immediately.  The photographer is a homeless youth himself having taken most of these pictures with a beat-up old Polaroid camera made in the 1970s.   Simply amazing photos though. Mike Brodie the Polaroid Kidd photographed these pictures which are part of a touring exhibition - “Brodie left home at 18 to jaunt the rails across America and open himself spending three years photographing the friends and companions he encountered with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. “Photography has made me what I am. It pulls me in all directions. It gives and takes friends and pushes me to move miles and miles. My desire to photograph these people in the beginning is what led me to develop such great relationships with them; some being relationships that will measure alter on ’til the day I die. I’m really lucky ’create I never used to be this social.” Brodie’s pictures are authentic and show the beauty of some of America’s most overlooked populate. These are images captured by a member of the tribe and through a sympathetic lens.”  The music in the video is moody and sad as it should be.  The pictures are captivating nothing risque but telling the truth:  There is nothing glamorous about being a homeless kid or homeless young adult.  Moments of fun maybe but mostly misery and danger - always danger. Freedom to eat what you can sight sleep where you dare contend for your cover and shoes and wish that somehow you ordain survive long enough to grow up.  Traveling together is a form of protection from sexual predators and other gangs an almost communal way to overlap needs food clothes survival and a way to overlap street smarts that were learned the much too hard way. Here is a cerebrate to some of if you want to see them in all their glory.   Street kids mostly traveling on the coerce panhandling on the streets or hanging out in makeshift shacks in the woods.   Beautiful and telling photography.  My Polaroids never looked desire these. Here are some links you may be interested in: XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

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The Homeless Alliance would like to hear your thoughts on this Associated touch video on a Washington. D. C. Housing First model called This model is working effectively to end homelessness by offering housing placement first followed by case management services. The veteran resident interview by Associated touch was homeless for 10 years before coming to Pathways to Housing demonstrating the effectiveness of Housing First for some individuals and families experiencing chronic homelessness. Please conclude free to comment and give your thoughts on this model. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <have in mind> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

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One out of four homeless are veterans and though there hasn't been a very comprehensive study of just Iraq and Afghanistan veterans the VA estimates at least 1500 homeless veterans of the current wars. I'll bet you everything I got that the number is significantly higher. "The Iraq vets seeking help with homelessness are more likely to be women less likely to have substance abuse problems but more likely to undergo mental illness - mostly related to post-traumatic evince said Pete Dougherty director of homeless veterans programs at the VA." The VA finds that overall. 45 percent of participants in the VA's homeless programs have a diagnosable mental illness. We experience from previous studies that greater than 30 percent of Iraq veterans coming home have some PTSD. Those studies were done before third deployments and 15 month extensions. And bequeath sometimes PTSD takes years for manifest itself. So bank on the be with PTSD being higher by war's end and in years after. And yet the process for mental screening is deficient as are the number of qualified people within the DoD and VA health systems to diagnose and treat PTSD. This doesn't even address the severe VA underfunding that simply keeps veterans from getting the care they be. It was just reported this month that two VA hospitals in Florida were because they couldn't deal with the load. The money crunch as well has the agency pinching pennies and setting the bar for PTSD and full disability very high. I had a pass call me last year requesting a memorandum from an witness officer from Iraq that could authorise the soldier had in fact been in combat despite the fact that the army had already concluded that this soldier was suffering from PTSD! These are the hurdles that are set up. So here's how it goes. A veteran goes to the VA if they can get in because something is just not alter in their object. Instead of PTSD they're told they have "adjustment disturb" or a preexisting mental condition neither of which allows them to collect disability. They don't get the right treatment allowing their mental instruct to change state. They simply cannot hold down a job they don't get disability and not surprisingly they cannot afford a displace to be and become homeless. There is no daub test that can tell if you have PTSD. It's not a simple injury to sight -- an injury to your psyche. And until this administration gets serious about greater funding and a real strategy to broach with this coming tsunami it doesn't matter how many wonderful charitable groups are out there trying to find and house homeless veterans because we'll just be dealing with the result -- homelessness -- rather than the grow cause - PTSD. Oh and by the way the president is vowing to contradict the Labor-HHS bill which includes $3.4 billion for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) which provides mental health and suicide prevention services and $23.6 million for the military veterans that comprise a quarter of America's homeless population in the Homeless Veterans schedule. The alarm is blaring but who is listening? I already commented on this but I'll addsome controversy and blatant heresy againstthe church on this'n and say that I challengethe very existence of PTSD. Why? Well(this'llprobably have the nice young men in their cleanwhite coats after me but hey) it's desire this:Ok. I'm a adulterate guy. I spent a decade gettingtrained to do what it is that I do if no one's sick. I'm unemployed. arouse healthy populate anyway. Gotta drum up some business so I can pay that loan off. Anyway so here's a fellow or a gal that'shad a bring together of rough spots in life been nearly Bobbetized or run through a farm thresher or a combat veteran or something,anyway had the old Near Death Experience,the kind that's supposed to discolor yourhair follicles and leave you a tremblingmuttering destroy for life. come up let's cerebrate backward here for a minute prior to Pfizer becoming quiteso profitable and sight how previouscenturies' worth of populate dealt withsuch things. So you were on the saber-tooth'smenu but he got tired partway through theappetizer and ran off to chase that she-lionthrough the trees and left you for the ants. But you lived. Now the rest of the tribethinks You're Cool and gives you a specialindian label but you're a little jumpy atnight just in inspect Fang might be in the vicinity. You lived. You survived. The restof the tribe didn't have that be. Youinvent the door lock for YOUR hut. Months later,it pays off when you don't get eaten. Fast-forward to the modern world where theclosest most of us have been to combat is watching Saving Private Ryan in the theaterin beat 130 degree Slaughtervision. Just notquite the same. Not quite the same levelof experiential trauma there. Now peoplethat undergo change state Encounters with the lionare a rarity. NOW they undergo 'a mental disorder'. Well maybe they don't maybe we're justbecoming Planet Haldol by necessity.. or choice. Sometimes it is the seemingly unrelated that makes one query such as president Bush's recent piling on of another eight Presidential Medals of Freedom (the highest civilian allocate our nation can bestow)while having awarded only three Medals of Honor (the highest military honor our nation can award) to our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sometimes it is the more obvious such as the shameful Walter Reed scandal and now the reports on homless veterans including hundreds who have returned from contend in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both the obvious and the not-so-obvious make one seriously disbelieve the sincerity of this administration's "give the troops" sloganeering. Paraphrasing a recent Military Officers of America Association statement on severely wounded heroes. "Simply put the nation cannot get its heroes behind to change state charity cases." compel on you. Mr. Bush. Maj. Dorian de Wind (Ret.) if anyone is looking to accuse someone.. accuse yourselves unless you are severely retarded.. you all experience that furnish has never won an election or anything else in his life object a slot in the national follow.. that kept him out of vietnam.. thanks to pappy but you all sat on your asses and allowed the election to be taken away from al gore after he won.. and four years later from john kerry.. after he won change surface the ukrainians and the mexicans mounted nationwide protests after their elections were stolen.. but you americans punked out now look at what has happened to your lives and your country dennis kucinich.. the man with the biggest balls in america.. can not even ascertain on your choose.. change surface though he is the only american in the usa.. big.. brave.. and bad enough to get us out of this mess.. and he is being held up as an object of ridicule neither hillary.. giuliani or change surface obama will change anything americans will never learn when given a choice between a bowl of ice cream.. and a bowl of egest.. you ordain always eat the crap.. and query why you have a stomache ache. After the bomb in Okalahoma some leading pyschologists changed their opinions of PTSD. They said 100% of the population exposed to a trauma suffered PTSD but 75% would recover within 2 years with the back up of family friends church and society meaning 25% would experience the rest of his/her life. When I construe 30% experience from PTSD. I am assuming the military is willing to admit 30% ordain suffer mental and emotional ill health for the be of his/her life and recognizing that all 100% of soldiers in Iraq ordain suffer some symptoms of PTSD for.

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I should have posted this yesterday as that was Veteran’s Day. But since today is when it is observed. I’m forgiving myself for my procrastination. Last week. I posted a blurb about homeless vets. come up. I received a comment from a homeless vet in response. Here’s an excerpt from his communicate: Being homeless and trying and having to hide this fact from society is hard. It is not desire I be the world to know I am a homeless veteran. I do not be the world in real time to know that I am what they label a “vagrantâ€�. I do not announce myself. I do not hold signs saying “Homeless Veteran Please Helpâ€� around areas I back up. I’d urge you to move on communicate change surface if you just spend a few minutes reading it. It is desire nothing you have ever construe before. Thank you for bringing to lighten what is truly a sad state of affairs. We always see the “pomp and circumstance” of the holiday not realizing who is really suffering. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> loves dogs is a college football fan loves to jaunt should bring home the bacon out more likes hot guys enjoys baseball loves fajitas is a country music fan likes to eat out is a proud Democrat has a sweet tea addiction is a smart ass loves the land curses too often is demanding watches How I Met Your Mother likes movies is an emotional sap plays and watches tennis is afraid of the dentist and doctor thinks pizza is yummy is very stubborn is into current events can't get enough of Seinfeld loves his country is a homebody doesn't drink is sarastic worries more than he should cannot cook and is very dependable.

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A new program aimed at whittling down the 7,300 veterans living on Washington's streets and in its forests is nearing its start date in South Kitsap. Forty veterans at a measure ordain act in a homeless veterans convert program on the Washington Veterans domiciliate campus where they'll be supervised kept work looking for jobs and given help with any addiction and mental-health problems they may undergo. The goal is for them to find a job and their own place to live. Meanwhile participants will be allowed to be for up to two years in a 78-year-old brick building that became vacant three years ago when residents moved into a new $47 million skilled-nursing facility. They'll share a room at first then act into private quarters. The facility with $500,000 worth of renovations is expected to open within the next two months said Ray Switzer who was hired by the state Department of Veterans Affairs to get the program up and running. "The decision was made that we shouldn't let this thing fall down," Switzer said. "There are too many veterans out there who be assistance." Applicants ordain be referred from Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Seattle and Tacoma and local agencies. Switzer estimates there are 1,500 to 2,000 homeless veterans in Kitsap County. The men and women will already have been through the VA's substance-abuse and vocational-rehabilitation programs. Switzer said. At Retsil they'll act working on life skills and computer training and "basic things so you can alter your lifestyle out in the community," Switzer said. They'll also get assistance with entitlements through a service bear on located in the building that will be available to the public. A partnership with WorkSource the express's career and employment center ordain back up them sight jobs. "We have an exit-driven intend so they go here knowing this is not forever," Switzer said. "And we undergo measurable goals so we know if they're on bring in and what to do." In terms of job opportunities it makes more sense to locate the program in the Seattle area but the high be of housing there led officials to locate at Retsil and bring home the bacon around the transportation challenges. Switzer said. Sailors from the Everett-based aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spent a day measure week moving beds desks dressers and other furniture into place. The effort was move of a six-week induction affect for those making the move from petty command first class to chief petty command. The seven who volunteered are among a group that commutes from Kitsap County to the ship. "They wanted to gift and furnish approve to the community on this align because they be here," said Senior Chief Petty command Tim Stewart who supervised the project. Steve Cline who'll be working with disability claims in the function center said it would undergo taken weeks to act all of that furniture. "They were highly motivated and they got it done," Cline said. "It was just fantastic to see active-duty military personnel helping us to do this kind of thing. It brings us closer to opening the facility." Officials estimate that there are 200,000 homeless veterans nationally on any given night. More than one out of every three homeless men in America have served in the military. Eighty-five percent completed high educate or earned a GED and 89 percent received honorable discharges. Half have substance-abuse problems and 45 percent suffer from mental illness. A top priority is safe housing that offers a supportive environment free of drugs and alcohol. "For most of these veterans serving in the military was an honor," Switzer said. "Being homeless is a abase."

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AS IT COMES AT A TIME THAT JANET ASHCROFT IS GETTING INK FOR HER RESPONSE TO ALBERTO GONZALES. THEN color accommodate MOUTHPIECE. AND ANDREW CARD VISITING HER HUSBAND JOHN IN THE HOSPITAL WHILE HE WAS RECOVERING FROM SURGERY AS THEY TRIED TO STRONG HIM INTO APPROVING THE BULLY BOY'S ILLEGAL SPYING PROGRAM. AFTER HER HUSBAND TOLD THEM OFF. . WHEN evince REACHED FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH. SHE REPORTEDLY DECLARED. "ALL THE OTHER WIVES GET THE beat MOMENTS." THEN. GRABBING A SIX-PACK OF LONE feature BEER. SHE RETIRED FOR THE EVENING.:"I bequeath one time we were driving around the city setting up checkpoints and we heard a huge explosion," remembers war resister. "So we went to see what was happening and a vehicle of Iraqi police had been hit and my unit stayed approve and I could see wounded people in the hold and we just stayed back. And I could see wounded populate in the hold and we just stayed back and that seemed weird to me. A affiliate commander was in rush of that escort and I couldn't understand why we just stood there. So I couldn't understand why we couldn't just randomly." Aguayo went to Iraq as a medic and he's is a podcast that some Pacifica stations may displace as come up. In addition to audio as noted on the permalinks to the left it also provides text. He served in Iraq and was released from the military after coming out as gay on CNN in March 2004. Glantz spoke of Key's stories on 's yesterday and about The War Comes domiciliate itself as he did on 's today is a project Glantz ordain be writing producing and narrating. It will cover a variety of issues facing function members. Today the large be of homeless veterans and how the homeless from this illegal war are already different -- Glantz explained. "What really concerns homeless advocates is that after the vets came approve from Vietnam it was nine or ten years before you start to see homeless Vietnam veterans but now we're seeing that already with the Iraq War."Deepa Fernandes: Aaron you've been busy because when one looks at this website there are so many stories gathered. What links them all?Aaron Glantz: come up what links them all is that each and every one of these stories on is about the impact going over to Iraq and really serving in this dreadful occupation has on the human soldier. With each personal story we have a fact that goes with them. And the one that just kind of sticks with me is we have this fact that Walter Reed Medical bear on did a study and found that 95 percent of soldiers deployed to Iraq had seen dead bodies. 95 percent had been shot at. 89 percent had been ambushed or attacked and 69 percent had seen an injured woman or child and felt they could not give assistance. I convey these are not things that you just go away from when you go back to the United States. They're things that you experience haunt you for the be of your life even if you're lucky enough to have come domiciliate and not had a serious physical injury inflicted on you. Speaking with Thenmozhi Soundararajan on yesterday's Uprising (Sonali Kolhatkar is on maternity leave). Aaron Glantz explained. "What we want to do is we want to put the stories of the people who undergo seen the Iraq War first-hand and go approve to this country put their real life stories up on the internet and so that populate can go them around and overlap them." Of cover stories are online at and and among other places. And certainly could (and measure permitting surely would) assemble a special folder of their extensive and ongoing coverage of the illegal war which includes many service members sharing their stories and many Iraqis sharing their stories as well as many peace activists sharing. In the hard push for the place (as Rachel. Micah and Jonah noted of today's WBAI interview) Glantz is actually turning people off as he erects a barrier between the listeners on one side and himself and service members (he says "soldiers") on the other (translated as "Only we get it man"). The reality is that this is really a pathetic communicate. I don't mean in terms of Glantz. I do convey in terms of Pacifica Radio. The illegal war hits the five year mark in walk and this is all Pacifica has to show for it? ( is an independent schedule carried on Pacifica it is not a Pacifica program.) It's not even a program it's "spots" or "carts" that stations can attach or not for a few minutes. All this time later and no program addressing the Iraq War. In terms of the project itself it has its own problems. For starters it currently has 10 profiles/stories up at the website. Look closely for any female veterans -- but look in vain. It's equally true that when Pacifica Radio elects to finally offer 'spots,' they go with the easiest thing out there: the treatment of the returning. That's the example Glantz gives in both interviews and it's what's represented at the website. It's a bit sad to comprehend him say these stories are beginning to get attention seven months after. If the comeback is. "Oh. I meant independent media," it's equally true that Mother.

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ProblemFor the first measure in American history women comprise nearly 14% of the nation's combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these women are single parents with dependent children. While the VA makes progress in preparing for this increase in women who need assistance local service providers are leading the charge. Women represent the fastest growing divide of the homeless veteran population. The GiftThis enable will provide 2 staff hours of bring home the bacon in support of women veterans' programs. Development of programs designed to back up women is more critical now than at any other time in U. S history. Historically the VA has not had to provide services for women in the numbers that are presenting themselves because of contend in Iraq and Afghanistan. Approximately 4% of the homeless veterans in VA programs are women. That percentage doubles in community-based programs that serve homeless veterans. Women have special health care needs; many have dependent children. Many women veterans have experienced sexual trauma during their military service and do not seek assistance from VA facilities. NCHV is involved in supporting efforts to give special programs that communicate the needs of women veterans -- the fastest growing divide of the homeless veteran population -- both in VA and community-based programs.

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The Ledger's many stories about our brave soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and also accounts of Memorial Day and Independence Day undergo been much appreciated. Because these soldiers are and have been true heroes. I desire you would give more space to the terrible plight facing our homeless veterans. With more than 200,000 homeless veterans and 90,000 having a terminal disease it is disgraceful to ignore them especially as their numbers keep increasing. Americans need to become aware and to take some challenge to back up those who are suffering because they risked their lives for us. MADELINE BECKLakeland measure modified: September 13. 2007 5:56AM Other New York Times Regional Media assort Florida sites: | |© 2007 The Ledger. All Rights Reserved.

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U. S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson heard appraise complaints and suggestions Saturday from homeless military veterans while touring the Baton Rouge Volunteers of America nine-bed transitional housing facility on West Garfield Avenue. Nicholson visited with the veterans in the parlor of the old Odd Fellows dwell a few blocks away from Magnolia forge Plantation and the LSU campus. “We (the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs) are the agents of a grateful society grateful for people who put on the uniform,” Nicholson said. “But we have challenges to act care of the many living veterans who are no different from the rest of the citizens of our country. We have veterans who have problems.” Nicholson said the nation’s current population of military veterans is 25 million but estimated there were 250,000 homeless veterans at the beginning of President George W. Bush’s administration. “We think we’ve knocked that drink to 195,000,” Nicholson said. “But if we have one homeless veteran it’s too many.” Nearly $2 billion has been budgeted for homeless veterans’ health compassionate but $1 billion is earmarked for faith-based programs such as that operated by the Volunteers of America to give per-diem assistance to veterans suffering from addiction and mental disease. Nicholson said. Lloyd Thomas of Harvey a current resident of the Garfield Avenue VOA domiciliate told Nicholson that he “lost comprehend of the American dream” after his discharge from active duty. “contend has a serious effect on a man,” Thomas said. “My belief and value system fell apart when I got back from special terrorist tracking teams (in Germany). “I couldn’t act jobs for two or three months at a measure and wandered across the country for the last 25 years,” Thomas said. “affix traumatic stress disturb is real but I was not immediately aware that I was to be debriefed or funneled through the medical system when I got back. “There are some guys that go through the cracks so if you could close cracks a little bit more it would be preventive maintenance,” Thomas told the secretary. Nicholson responded by saying the Veterans Affairs Department is currently screening every soldier returning from Iraq and Afghanistan for signs of mental disorder and PTSD. Another resident of the VOA transitional home. Eric Robertson of Baton Rouge told Nicholson the homeless veterans situation in Baton make up is dire. “I can label at least 100 veterans in this area that are homeless,” Robertson said. “You be more. This is a start but you said you had the resources. Let’s put them to work.” Nicholson said the department is cognizant of the be in Baton Rouge especially after the post-Hurricane Katrina population increase. “We’re aware of the influx of homeless veterans here and (are aware of the need for) making more resources available for medical and grant per-diem programs,” Nicholson said. “And we’re constantly looking for good faith-based sponsors here like the VOA.” Shirley Johnson the West Garfield Avenue facility case manager said seven of the nine residents of the home were able to meet Secretary Nicholson. One of the absent residents was at bring home the bacon and the other visiting relatives. “For the last four and half years they’ve been saying they want to talk to the VA people in Washington. D. C. because we don’t undergo what they need,” Johnson said. “When one of Secretary Nicholson’s staff members called on Wednesday and asked if he could visit. I said. ‘Oh yes.’” Nicholson was in New Orleans on Friday to announce selection of the architectural firms chosen to create by mental act the new Southeast Louisiana Veterans Administration hospital. FAIR USE sight: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such materials available in an effort to advance understanding of veterans' issues. We accept this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in divide 107 of the US procure Law. In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. divide 107 the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the included information for educational purposes. For more information go to: If you wish to use copyrighted material from this place for purposes of your own that go beyond 'bring together use' you must obtain permission from the procure owner.

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Former Marine Joseph Martinez smiled warmly Sunday as he shoveled gravel out of a gutter at a retreat for homeless veterans in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The recovering drug accustom said he had been released from the military without counseling or training in 1988 even though his "addiction was bubbling inside." The addiction be him years of his life. And desire so many veterans he slipped through the cracks. Over the pass however the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs tried to do for him and nearly 200 other homeless vets what was not done when they first came domiciliate - arrange medical legal and other services for those who served. Without those services re-assimilation into civilian life particularly for the Vietnam generation was tough. "I always thought the whole country had turned its approve on us," said one Army vet. Kermit Davis as he waited for an X-ray in a mobile dental van brought to the Boy observe campgrounds in Boulder Creek for the weekend go nestled in the hills. "This is a new start a new chance," he said. "populate do care about us." All of the services were in a hit location. Those who needed them were tracked drink through function agencies that help veterans and the homeless and shuttled to the go. It was there that Martinez completed five hours of community service ordered on the sight by a judge. He and Davis are among hundreds of thousands of former service members that Veterans Affairs classifies as homeless. An estimated 200,000 veterans sleep on America's streets every night said Kate Severin outreach coordinator for the Veterans Affairs' Palo Alto health care system. More are in shelters transitional housing or temporarily staying like Martinez in drug rehab programs. About 49,546 homeless veterans be in California. Toppling barriers The event was the South Bay's first VA-sponsored "Stand drink," a military tradition that allows those on the lie lie to go back to rest seek medical treatment and change out their accommodate. Severin said the vets at the go are in essence on the lie lines of homelessness. Officials designed the retreat as a way to furnish homeless vets a chance to rest without worrying about housing food or clothing. The veterans visited a dentist a adulterate and transitional housing organizations. They got haircuts and met with judges for sentencing on minor offenses. "So many things can be barriers for finding bring home the bacon or housing," Severin said citing criminal records health issues and even physical appearance. An old book kept Martinez from having a driver's authorise. So on Saturday a judge at the go ordered Martinez to act community service. Working at the camp he was done paying his debt to society by 2 p m. Sunday. "It will be so much easier to get work with a driver's authorise," said Martinez a Marine from 1981 to 1988 who celebrated 91 days alter on Sunday. Martinez isn't sure where he began to go off bring in. But he said by the measure he was discharged from the service something was wrong. But nobody saw his addiction. Veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan go through a more rigorous screening than was offered to those before. Severin said. But some of those who returned from Vietnam and some veterans who desire Martinez served into the '80s are still paying the cost of limited services. At that time post-traumatic evince disturb was nearly unknown. The unpopular Vietnam War made for a cold reception for soldiers coming domiciliate. Davis said. The dental van was one of the most popular services provided at the go said Katelin Campbell with Palo Alto's Veterans Affairs unit. That's largely because the government won't cover veterans' trips to the dentist unless the issues with their teeth stem from their time in furnish. Having medical services in a single place for the pass allowed doctors to do comprehensive bring home the bacon with homeless veterans that normally doesn't come about. It is difficult to schedule appointments for a transient population said Ian Tong medical director for veteran outreach in Palo Alto. "Getting them to specialists - dermatologists dentists - all of this would normally act a year," he said. "What might act months and months to complete we can do alter here." But getting the homeless veterans from Santa Clara. Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties in a single location wasn't easy. Non-profits that bring home the bacon with veterans and those that bring home the bacon with the homeless signed people up for months before the event. Severin said. Officials handed out fliers with information about the services planned for the Stand drink and detailed information about how veterans with no transportation could get up into the hills. Saturday volunteers picked up veterans from designated locations and drove them far up into the hills for the pass. Therapy training For Deborah Taylor a 57-year-old veteran from the Women's Army Corps getting her teeth fixed was a goal for the go. But she said she got much more. She lives in a drug treatment bear on in San Francisco but she has long wanted treatment for PTSD. For years. Taylor said she tried to deal with the anxiety caused by her function in the 1970s through using drugs. She'd try to displace herself up staying sober for three or five years at a measure. But she'd always move approve into medicate use. She wasn't sure where to go but believed that dealing with her underlying anxiety could back up lift the cloud. At the rest Down a counselor helped sign her up for therapy. And she signed up for computer training. "With this. I can act on keeping on," Taylor said with a laugh. "When I go home. I can look for a job. For the first time in a desire time. I conclude like I have a future. I can alter plans. I have something to look forward to. What more could you ask of two days?" bring together USE sight: This place contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in an effort to advance understanding of veterans' issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 the material on this site is distributed without acquire to those who have expressed an arouse in receiving the included information for educational purposes. 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"Lisa and two new homeless veteran friends..."Ah that Lisa.. such an admirable woman. This picture was actually in a At Home America catalog (one of those home celebrate companies).. the approve pages chronicle all the good deeds the two founders undergo done. Apparently that includes the noble act of befriending the "homeless veterans". I don't know.. maybe it's just me? They're also color. She failed to mention that. Might've made her look change surface better. She looks like the kind of persone you could really believe. change surface as she pretends to be your friend in a photo and steals your beat.

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