If you haven't been following this story, Bill O'Reilly has claimed on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" that there aren't many homeless veterans in America.
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, on a given night in 2006, 195,826 veterans were homeless. Overall, 336,627 veterans were homeless in 2006.
Today, while going through my daily routine of online news and blogs, I came across this article from The Associated Press.
It seems that the AP has managed to find a couple of homeless vets in Leeds, Massachusets:
LEEDS, Mass. - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.
...Mike Lally, still only 26 years old, is here, booted out of his house by his wife, padding around in an old T-shirt and sweats at a Leeds shelter called Soldier On, trying to get sober and perhaps, on a day he can envision but not yet grasp, get his home and family and life back.//
Maybe the AP was looking a little bit harder than Bill.
Bill pledged that if anyone knew any homeless vets, to contact him and he would see to it that they are housed. So that is just what I am doing.
I've put up an open letter to Bill O'Reilly over at VetVoice.com.
Please come to VetVoice.com to join the conversation with us, and let Bill O'Reilly know that there really are homeless vets in America that need our help.