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splat@14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 06:58 PM
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Legal immigration. Still, homeless & no better off than if illegal.


Vanessa Gamboa, an Iraq war veteran of the U.S Army and single mother, holds up her new U.S. Citizenship documents after being sworn in as a U.S. Citizen in downtown Brooklyn, New York, May 19, 2006. The 24-year-old single mother originally from Guatamala who was discharged in April, after her second tour in Iraq, returned to New York, had little money, no place to live, and became homeless. Gamboa is part of a small but growing trend among U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- homelessness. On any given night there are 200 to 250 of them in America, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) says. They are among nearly 200,000 homeless U.S. veterans, largely from the Vietnam War.
REUTERS/Mike Segar



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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:32 PM
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1. This is just too despicable for words anymore.
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Robbie Michaels Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:42 PM
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2. Agreed
Edited on Sun May-21-06 07:42 PM by Robbie Michaels
Anyone who sacrificed so much for this bullshit war should NEVER be homeless! :grr:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:44 PM
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3. OMG!!
How much worse can we treat these vets?
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sandyd921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 08:22 PM
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4. It's an outrage
that this is the best that these lying bastids can do for those who have served their country! :grr:
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