The term
homeless veteran should not exist. They go off and do our country’s dirty work
come home get called a hero by people who don’t know the meaning of the word.
Praised and thanked then ignored. Then we enact laws in a number of cities to
make homelessness illegal where even feeding them is a crime. Talk about kicking
people when they’re down. Even with the epidemic of veteran suicides we do
nothing. Then we have holidays to honor them falsely so we can sleep at night.
Yes, we should honor and thank them, but we as a people can do better than
half-hearted salutes. Don’t mean to be a downer but I’ve developed a strong
addiction to the truth these days.
"We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature...is still soaked with the sense of exile." JRR Tolkien
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