Herold Noel had nowhere to call home after returning from military service in Iraq. He slept in his Jeep, taking care to find a parking space where he wouldn't get a ticket.
"Then the nightmares would start," says the 26-year-old former Army private first class, who drove a fuel truck in Iraq. "I saw a baby decapitated when it was run over by a truck -- I relived that every night."
I don't want to hear another godamn word out of the whitehouse or the fucking sadist living there. Not one fucking word. Not until ALL our vets are taken care of and have their needs met. I don't want to hear a fucking peep from repug or dem alike until I don't have to see this shit anymore. I can't even think of outrageous enough descriptors to describe the criminality of this.
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As a member of the National Guard, Nadine Beckford patrolled New York train stations after the September 11 attacks then served a treacherous year in the Gulf region.
But when she returned home from Iraq, she found her storage locker had been emptied of all of her belongings, and her bank account had been depleted. She believes her boyfriend took everything and "just vanished."
Six months after her return to America, she lives in a homeless shelter in Brooklyn
Speadin' freedom and supportin' the troops, fuck yeah. Lost all your shit? Whoops too bad. Go shit in your hat.
There are now about 200,000 homeless vets in the United States, government figures show.
"In recent years, we've tried to reach out sooner to new veterans who are having problems with post-traumatic stress, depression or substance abuse, after seeing combat," said Dougherty.
"These are the veterans who most often end up homeless."
And I bet those figures are as accurate as the government report on, fuck, pick any government report from these fuckers that's ever even remotely based in reality. I bet it is closer to double that figure.
Almost half of America's 2.7 million disabled veterans receive $337 or less a month in benefits, according to the government. Fewer than one-tenth are rated 100 percent disabled.
Maybe you could take your piece of shit buddy Kenny boy's estate and split it up among the vets. Too fucking bad he croaked. Oh wait, I bet that will go to repay all those poor bastards who lost everything..Oh silly fucking me, Kenny worked hard and earned his great, great, great, great grandson a table at the elite banquet. Nevermnd, they need that money. Rot in hell douchebag.
For those struggling to keep a roof over their head, filing for benefits can be a bureaucratic Catch-22 that ratchets up the stress. But it's their survival ticket, if their claim is not turned down.
To an outsider, the VA benefit formulas can seem like a riddle.
If, for instance, a vet is diagnosed as 70-per-cent physically disabled and 30-per-cent disabled as a result of post-traumatic stress, the total disability does not necessarily add up to 100 per cent; it could amount to 80 per cent. And that means a monthly cheque of $1,277; $1,500 for a family of four -- a paltry amount in places like New York where cramped studio apartments routinely exceed $1,000 a month.
Hey thanks for the legs, here's a crappy rebuilt chair to sit in. Fuck no you can't have anything else. We're busy spreadin; freedom remember! And tell them whiny ass kids to shut up, crying because your hungry is for pussies, and pussies hate america!
"I'd say it was hard to sleep in Vietnam because you could be killed and it's hard to sleep when you don't have a house," Ward said. "I'm a survivor. I survived the war. I can survive this."
The 50-year-old Army veteran was among several homeless vets Monday who set up a community of tents built of lumber and thick plastic in a park across from St. Louis City Hall. They are collecting signatures to make this park, or one like it, a permanent encampment for homeless people in St. Louis.
Enough is enough, what have we become anyway? Our representatives need
stop fucking around with useless resolutions and fix this problem NOW.
I wrote this in about five minutes after googling "homeless vets".
I am just to pissed off not to publish it now. Not a word George, not a fucking word out of your smirking little face untill this problem is fixed.
UPDATE: Besides commenting, if anyone has some info and advice on how to start a non-profit in Illinois, please leave the info here or email me.
Fight-The-Oppression@insightbb.com
I'm a Sheetmetal and Iron worker but I Goddamn well I ought to be able to build a house for a vet. I need to do something.