Veterans Day story: Homeless veterans

Americans support their troops during wars; but then years later—or months later!—when some of those veterans are homeless, attitudes change . . . our national consensus is that people who make poor choices, or who get unlucky, should sleep outdoors or in their cars.

My day job is in affordable housing, so I pay attention to this. Many veterans really are homeless. Here is a group that advocates for them:

http://www.nchv.org/index.cfm

And here are a few stories of actual homeless veterans:

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/coming-home-homeless-homeless-veterans/story?id=12478952

There’s a children’s story of a veteran who was lucky enough not to be homeless — my grandfather — on the Peace Stories for Children page.