New wars swell ranks of lost vets (homeless)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/423600p-357336c.html

Ten years after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, an army of shell-shocked veterans began reporting to homeless shelters.

Now those desperate ranks are being joined by veterans of conflicts where the guns are still blazing - the Iraq and Afghan wars.

And social workers fear the trickle of stunned soldiers returning from Baghdad and Kabul has the potential to become a tragic tide.

"The Iraq vets are showing up now, and asking for help now," said Yogin Ricardo Singh of the Brooklyn-based Black Veterans for Social Justice. "What surprises me is how young they are."

[babylonsister]

1. How sad. And this is how the soldiers are 'honored'. I'm heartsick. nt

[Bozita]

2. All PNACers should have this story read aloud to them ...

... in their prison cells.

Over and over and over...