US Seeing More Female Homeless Vets

[Louisiana1976]

(CNN) -- When Iraq war veteran Angela Peacock is in the shower, she sometimes closes her eyes and can't help reliving the day in Baghdad in 2003 that pushed her closer to the edge.

While pulling security detail for an Army convoy stuck in gridlocked traffic, Peacock's vehicle came alongside a van full of Iraqi men who "began shouting that they were going to kill us," she said.

One man in the vehicle was particularly threatening. "I can remember his eyes looking at me," she said. "I put my finger on the trigger and aimed my weapon at the guy, and my driver is screaming at me to stop."

"I was really close to shooting at them, but I didn't."

Now back home in Missouri, Peacock, 30, is unemployed -- squatting without a lease in a tiny house in a North St. Louis County neighborhood.

She points to the Baghdad confrontation as a major contributor to her struggles with drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. She says she's one step away from living on the street.

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more...http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/25/homeless.veterans/index.html

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. Where are all those folks with the yellow ribbons on their cars?

Seems like they can now support the troops by opening up their homes.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Probably somewhere planning how to kill their next doctor who performs abortions.

[juno jones]

3. It's like supporting the pre-born.

Once they're respectively out of the army or womb, it's sink or swim, bud, just like the rest of us in this shitty culture.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

5. How true...

Those brave hero's soon become the unsightly guy begging on the corner. Our heros are as disposable as everything else in this culture.

[Skittles]

7. actually, most of them don't support the soldiers when they're active

I've asked several people sporting SUPPORT THE TROOP things on their cars, what exactly are you doing to support them? Inevitably their support consists of sporting a sticker on their car.

[lunatica]

4. This happens again and again and people still think war is good

And they claim it's natural to human beings. If that were true there would be no PTSD among military veterans.

Fucking Bush never went to war but he sure liked being a War President. Stories like this really piss me off.

[DCKit]

6. +1 Too disgusted to comment further. n/t