"When I come home from Iraq, I become homeless" THIS ONES FOR YOU BILLO

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-974249342506127537&q=iraq+war+veteran+homeless&total=26&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

"When I Came Home" is a documentary which follows the lives and struggles of several homeless veterans who have recently returned home from ... all » the war in Iraq.

Director Lohaus is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has worked with documentary filmmakers Les and Harrod Blank and was the assistant editor on the film On The Ropes, which was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2000 Academy Awards.


http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3661.shtml

Daniel Machado, from Los Angeles and a Vietnam era veteran, leans against a bunk at a homeless shelter for veterans in San Diego, positioning himself to be at the front of the food line, Wednesday, March 28. With warmer weather arriving, the giant tent that was a winter home for 150 veterans is being packed away. No one knows for sure how many homeless veterans there are, estimates vary from hundreds of thousands to millions. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, there are about 195,000 homeless veterans on any given night. Photo: AP/World Wide Photos
LOS ANGELES (IPS/GIN) - Veterans of the Iraq war are becoming homeless more quickly than veterans from Vietnam, largely due to domestic conflicts and custody disputes that happen upon their return.

“What’s unique about the men and women coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan is that they’re not able to integrate with their family,” said Rachel Feldstein, the associate director of New Directions, a residential care center for homeless veterans in West Los Angeles. “They’ve seen horrible things. They’ve been in horrible places and their family can’t relate. And so they become homeless.”

The U.S. Vets Westside Residence Hall, where New Directions is based, is a hulking eight-story structure a few blocks from Los Angeles International Airport. It’s the largest transitional housing and employment center for homeless veterans in the country, hosting 700 veterans annually.

Michael Hall is one of its residents. The 31-year-old Army staff sergeant enlisted shortly after high school and served as a heavy equipment mechanic and technical weapons specialist in Bosnia, Cuba, Kuwait and Afghanistan before being severely injured in Iraq in 2003.

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1. maybe you should talk with this guy, billo

[Mnemosyne]

2. My heart breaks more each day.

:cry:

Thanks for keeping this out there slad. :hug:

[mdmc]

3. kick

for the streets

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I visited one of the Vets hospitals when I lived in San Diego from 79-80

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It was the most depressing place I had ever visited, and 28 years later,

it is STILL the most depressing place I visited.

Young and old men, missing limbs, wheelchairs by the hundreds

Vets screaming in pain, anguish and anger.

And this was almost 30 years ago!

I can't fathom the amount of lost/damaged/injured souls that are now in the USA that are the result of unnecessary wars.

Gawdalmighty parents!

Keep your kids out of the military down there.

If you love them . . . .