Mullen: Veterans will suffer for years.

[Forkboy]

Their children and homelessness are concerns, he says.

NEW YORK - Homelessness, family strains and psychological problems among returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will persist in the United States for generations to come, the top US military officer said yesterday.

"This is not a 10-year problem. It is a 50- or 60- or 70-year problem," Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a lunchtime audience at the Hudson Union Society, a group that promotes nonpartisan debate.

Mullen said he was particularly disturbed by the emergence of homelessness as a problem among war veterans.

"I believe the cumulative effects of these deployments, the pressure that so many are under, the impact of what . . . mostly our soldiers and Marines have been through" on the battlefield "in our eighth year of war has a lot to do with" the suicide and other stress-related problems that are plaguing the military and their families, he said.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/04/03/mullen_veterans_will_suffer_for_years/

[Mari333]

1. but we are paying mercenaries 15,000 a month

with our tax money..not the soldiers, only the mercenaries.
and we havent stopped.

[Forkboy]

2. I know. It's aggravating beyond words.

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