U.S. vets from Iraq war emerge at homeless shelters

http://story.theusnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/b7c876cbe0bed4e2/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/

I actually pulled this from someone else's blog while looking at other Drupal sites, but one sentence in particular caught at me, and I thought I'd note it here:

"Around one-fourth of all homeless Americans are veterans, and more than 75 percent of them have some sort of mental or substance abuse problem, often PTSD, according to the Homeless Veterans coalition."

If those figures are true, we're doing a frighteningly bad job of taking care of our survivors. I have no idea where to begin looking at how to fix that. It is, however, something I want to remember for the future, so I'm writing it down.

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