War Veterans - Homeless

This morning CNN reported that 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are war veterans, while the homeless represent 11 percent of the civilian adult population. Soldiers returning from the Iraq war are becoming homeless more quickly than veterans from Vietnam.

The inability to readjust back into American society has been given the reason for the problem.

I thought this was only a problem with returning soldiers of the Vietnam era. But the same post traumatic stress is affecting our returning soldier from Iraq and Afghanistan.

This problem is not just to young men in the early 20's, but 30, and 40 returnees. War has always ways been called, "HELL". Spending a year or so in HELL changes a man or a woman to the point that functioning in American Society difficult.

Hearing loud noises and thinking it is gun fire. The inability to relax. Coming home a different person. All these mark a war vet.

Bottomline: What can we do for these poor torment men and women? They didn't give their lives for their country. They gave their emotional sanity.