Homeless Veterans
Submitted by reconsldr74d on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 11:29pm.
A soldier never rushes through the rain
Or speaks of pain
Especially his own
Every emotion is out on loan
And must be paid back
To Iraq
Or Afghanistan or Cuba
Whichever they left behind
And it haunts them everyday
As they beg for dimes
Begging and swaggering on the street
Scraping up together change to eat
And to drink
So they no longer have to think
Because there VA check still hasnt come in
Again
And they think that there forgotten
And they might be right
After all they can no longer fight
And they sleep in that dark alley
Watching for cops
And trying to make the nightmares stop
Every day they live with this pain
Yet still walk calmly through the rain
Re: homeless vets
According to the VA, 23% of homeless people are vets. That means about one in four homeless people are vets.
It took my less then three days after I got out...
The state of Washington had me on the books as a homeless veteran within a week after I left the service. Luckily that's not the case anymore, but I found the resources more then a little lacking to help prevent this situation.
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