HOMELESS VETERAN INITIATIVE... Please write your congress men and women and urge them to reopen military barracks and facilities to house homeless Vets. They trained there to serve their country and they should not be living on the streets ! Please I urge you to join me. I am writing Beau Biden as we speak. Although not my State, Delaware ,he is a Vet of a younger generation that I am sure still cares for his brothers and sisters in arms! Beau Bidens email Attorney.General@State.De.US.. Just feel he might have a sensitive ear on the subject and a direct link into the WH. It's another Xmas folks and the Vets are on the streets of America not Baghdad. A law was passed in 1987 by Reagan to address this and Clinton tried to implement it but failed as well. It is time to remind Congress and the President of this national shame. There are another 400,000 troops coming home over the next 3 years to a bad economy.
As I took my family shopping the other night in Hollywood. Both my sons 8 and 10 encountered a homeless man in a shabby uniform. Only Jethro Tull could give you apt words to fit the description. And of course my oldest son asked " Daddy Why "... I ask you all WHY ? Please join my initiative and make it your own. Call write your congress person your Senator and Beau Biden if you care to. And i all urge you to go to the link below and see for yourself this law is already on the books.
www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=8103
Dear __( insert Representative)
There are currently over a quarter of a million Veterans homeless and living on the streets of the United States of America. These men and women were trained and housed in Military Barracks across this country. Before they left for whereabouts unknown to put their lives and limbs on the line for Freedom we were able to house and feed and clothes these fine Men and Women. This is a national disgrace and can no longer be tolerated. I would implore you to support the Veterans Homeless Initiative. In 1987 the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act was passed into law. It went nowhere in 1987 and again under Clinton in 1990 failed to get off the ground. We have hundreds of empty military bases that and yet we have these men and women living on our streets. You are my representative and I expect you to do the right thing. Please reflect that we have hundreds of thousands returning home during this decade as well, with prospects for a better life at long odds, especially for the military. Please make me aware of your intentions by having the courtesy and decency to respond to this query.
This Diary of sorts was published yesterday under a horrific title and it was rec'd to me to rename and resubmit by
