Running Head: HOMELESS VETERANS HOMELESS VETS Homeless Veterans How do Veterans become homeless? Our Veterans‚ the ones who serve in the United States Military‚ have fought for our country and others. They have served us well by leaving their families behind and venturing off into unknown lands like Iraq and Afghanistan to make us proud of them. We call them Heroes until they return home. Our Heroes return safely home from death and destruction only to be made aware that they are
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Homeless Veterans in America Veterans make up eleven percent of the nation’s homeless population. While that number does not seem high‚ it means that about fifty thousand men and women who served our country are living in the streets (Shaw). More that half of those homeless veterans have some sort of disability. There are programs in place to help veterans ‚ but for many‚ these are not enough to keep in their homes. Veteran homelessness is commonly overlooked but has proven to be an extremely
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National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV)‚ nearly 200‚000 American Veterans are homeless on any given night (Rieckhoff). NCHV - the resource and technical assistance center - reported that the number of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) - (OEF) veterans are becoming homeless much more quickly than Vietnam veterans. As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues the number of homeless veterans increases. The next generation of American Veterans is on its way home
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will be done for our homeless veterans? What has and will be done for our homeless veterans? Our veterans are an important part to society. They gave their lives to protect their country every day. Though many face hard times and homelessness they are still part of society. The Department of Veteran Affairs has in place a plan to end homelessness by the end of this year. The public can lend a hand in helping to end veteran homelessness. Our veterans are falling asleep under
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IMPACTS OF HOMELESS VETERANS The definition of a homeless veteran is combining being homeless and having the status of being a veteran. In 2009 President Obama and Secretary Shinseki made a commitment to end homelessness amongst veterans in 5 years. This was in collaboration with the Veterans Administration (VA). Homeless within the ranks of our veterans has been around for decades. There are many explanations why some veterans are homeless. It could be due to not receiving benefits after leaving
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Homeless Veteran Essay We have many homeless veterans on the streets today. None of them deserve to be homeless for what they have done for this country. They gave their lives for our freedom. They are diligent‚ intrepid‚ and Incessant men and women. They spent their life in hard training‚ days and nights of hard work‚ the work they did was arduous. They were superfluous for what they have done for us. The did not have to go away from their family/friends. They chose to do that. They gave years
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Speech 301: Public Speaking Problem Solution Speech Homeless Veteran’s INTRODUCTION: How many people have a Veteran in their family or know one? If yes do you help them or is it someone else’s problem. Well many people think it’s someone else problem‚ but the truth is it’s our problem. They gave there all for each of us! PROBLEM: Veterans being let go from service without appropriate long tern help. Leaves unthinkable large numbers of Veterans helpless without knowledge on how to fit back in to
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Veterans are an important part of our nation and do not get the credit that they deserve. Veterans have risked their lives for this country countless times‚ yet they go unappreciated a lot of times. From a personal stance‚ my grandfather is a retired veteran himself and he fought in the Vietnam War. If my grandfather had not been able to get on his feet from retiring from the Navy‚ I would hope that there would be some type of support system for him. A lot of veterans today do not have the support
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Ours Too many of those who once wore our nation’s uniform now sleep in our nation’s streets. Our work will not be finished until every veteran has a roof over their head‚ and every community has the tools in place to keep Veterans from sliding back into homelessness. (The White House) As a country we are facing a large problem: many war veterans are in a homeless state. It is a problem that we can merely push aside. These are people who fought for our liberty‚ and we‚ as a country‚ need to work to
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Homeless Veterans in America In the United States‚ there are more than enough resources to serve all of the people of this country‚ but we still have homeless citizens that are trying to survive. They have the same living conditions as of those in developing countries. As of 2003‚ more than 275‚000 veterans were sleeping under bridges and now the amount is definitely still on a bit of a rise. There is a pretty high amount of homeless veterans for the century that we live in and an endless amount
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