Homeless GIs & Vets America’s biggest shame

Lost in the now daily destruction of the America we all loved and knew, are some 194,254 homeless American war veterans. Fiercely proud and searching for dignity, the war veterans are the most hidden of the faceless homeless.

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That's 194,254 heroic GIs and veterans who returned back home only to end up out on the streets. This is an undignified fate indeed for those my veteran friend "the old Sarge" describes as the "noble wounded warriors who put their lives and limbs at risk keeping the rest of us safe". "The rest of us", can be accurately defined as anyone living anywhere in freedom and liberty because without the American vets and GIs, there is no freedom anywhere in the world, not just in their U.S. homeland. As President Barack Hussein Obama continues to dismantle America, 194,254 homeless soldiers are shuffled to the back mind of public recognition. It's thanks largely to author/columnist Dick Morris and Ret. Major General John K. Singlaub that the actual number of homeless soldiers even got counted. Incredibly, the number was gleaned from the government's own statistics! This in an era where rock star adulation of Barack Obama portrays him as the patron saint of the downtrodden! On any long night, in any season, soldiers--including disabled ones--are sleeping out in farmer's fields, inside of barns and under the trees of the copses and forests. GIs and vets, returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, after their sacrifice, have no place left to call home. The homeless 194,254 homeless American war veterans have got to be at the top of the Hypocrisy List of American government. While Obama has been "dating" his wife of 17 years, swinging a golf iron or working on his well-photographed abs at the White House gym, the very men and women, who keep him safe in the lifestyle to which he has so swiftly become accustomed, are homeless. There are only two good things about the unwritten Homeless Soldiers story. One it surfaced in time for July 4th, 2009, and The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes is in there leading the fight. "Thank God the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes is doing something about it. Please click here to make an emergency donation to the Coalition's "Bring Them in From The Street" campaign. Your gift will help us provide emergency financial aid to disabled heroes facing evictions, as well as those facing utility cutoffs and other financial disasters." (www.DickMorris.com, June 28, 2009). "You'll also be able to send a Fourth of July THANK YOU and GET WELL card to cheer up a severely wounded serviceman or woman and show them your patriotic support." The Coalition is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 to provide emergency financial and other aid for troops who have been severely wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. Through the generosity of supporters across America, the Coalition has responded with emergency financial aid to more than 11,000 requests from severely wounded troops and their families facing crises such as home foreclosures, evictions and disconnection of their heat or hot water. Finding out how many soldiers are homeless touched the heart and sparked the boundless passion of Major General Singlaub: "I just can't believe so many GIs who have sacrificed for our country may be left out in the street and that others are facing a cutoff of their water, electricity or air conditioning during the scorching summer heat." "The paragraph from one news article really set me off: "Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job. "Shelters and soup kitchens? "What in the world is going on here?? "Many of these younger veterans have small children. They've risked their lives and limbs serving our country, and now they won't even have a roof over their head...or a meal to eat? "The government claims it's doing whatever it can to help. But obviously that's not enough." On this July 4th you can give American troops something they gave countless others in the Free World: That something comes from a patriotic heart and is called dignity.