If you REALLY support the troops, read this. And tell someone with those damned magnetic ribbons on their SUV about this.

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About one quarter of all homeless people in the US are veterans. The VA estimates that nearly 200,000-300,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. What's alarming is that veterans of the Iraq War are already arriving in homeless shelters, victims of PTSD, substance abuse, divorce, unemployment. About 28,000 veterans from Iraq sought health care from the VA and about 1 in 5 have mental problems. It breaks my heart. Says one homeless vet:

"We had a few situations where, I guess, people were trying to get out of the country. They would come right at us and they would not stop," Brown said. "We had to open fire on them. It was really tough. A lot of soldiers, like me, had trouble with that."

"That was the hardest part," Brown said. "Not only were there men, but there were women and children -- really little children. There would be babies with arms blown off. It was something hard to live with."

See The National Coalition For Homeless Veterans to find out what you can do for veterans in your community. The readers here know what a farce it is to slap a magnetic ribbon your SUV.

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