and noticeable phenomenon. Homeless veterans began to come to the attention of the public at the same time. News accounts chronicled the plight of veterans who had served their country but were living (and dying) on the streets. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates about 250‚000 veterans are homeless on any given night. (2012‚ pg. 4) My research will examine how homelessness is impacting our veterans and what interventions are available to homeless veterans. Introduction Whether it is wartime
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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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protect us from danger? Have you ever thought of what a Veteran really is? Many thoughts race through my head when I hear the word Veteran‚ and I’m sure that in the past you’ve heard the word Veteran more than once. The Veteran may have been one of your teachers or even someone on a local news station‚ but have you ever considered what being a Veteran really means? To me‚ being a Veteran means you are someone who is brave‚ kind‚ and much more. Veterans selflessly defend the country that we call our home
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Locally in Minnesota a resource that is available to veterans is Veteran Resilience Project (VRP). VRP works with veterans to turn their trauma they have been through into growth (Project‚ 2016). Through this resource veterans are offered 12 free sessions of EMDR (Project‚ 2016). This program offers 100% confidentiality to their patients‚ realizing that PTSD is very serious and life changing for the veterans‚ which they want to acknowledge and not take away from them. In knowing that this is very
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A veteran is a person who has served in the military. On November 11 Veterans Day is celebrated annually in the United States. Historically‚ it was called Armistice Day which only honored WW1 veterans. Now we have a holiday that thanks all war veterans. Veterans day is important because it is time to pay tribute to all the brave men and women that have served our country including ones that have made the ultimate sacrifice. On this day‚ we should express our gratitude to the soldiers that went to
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A veteran is a person who has had experience working in a particular field for a vast amount of time; or as it is more commonly referred to one who has served in the military. Veterans who have served in the US military are very important members of our society. They have fought for the safety and future of our country‚ and without them‚ our country might not be what it is today. Some tend to not consider how much veterans truly sacrifice. They risk their well-being‚ being separated from their loved
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at all. Chapter 10 informed us about how the Vietnam War started and what really happened during that time. It also gave us background information about Vietnam Veterans and nurses who were involved in the war and what they went through during the war. I had the opportunity to interview a Vietnam Veteran also. The Vietnam Veteran I interviewed was my grandfather; he was 27 years old during the time of the war. He volunteered to go to Vietnam because he didn’t like picking fruits and vegetables
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As we approach I now notice the gentleman is propped up on a crate. His legs are crossed and appear to provide the perfect support for his resting arms and hand holding a sign “Homeless Veteran.” Is this crate what he carries his belonging in? Does he have belongings? A moral dilemma begins to erupt within myself. Am I intruding as I peer at him as he encounters each vehicle? Am I interrupting a private moment? Am I invading his spotlight
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understand the long-term effects of trauma; therefore‚ they do not understand why the victim cannot move forward. When attempting to understand the question we must first consider people who dealt with similar situations such as Iraq war veterans. Why does one of the veterans return to normal functioning while the other one develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Though there is no clear-cut reason the “physiological phenomena persist‚ traumatized people cannot tune out the repetitive stimuli that
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The Iraq war has ended as of December 2011. Osama Bin Laden has been killed as of May 2011 and yet the war in Afghanistan is still ongoing. The jihadist terrorism threat that our nation once feared from Al-Qaeda has diminished. Many question the justification of the United State’s involvement in the Middle East over the past decade. What have our intentions been this whole time and have the lives of those brave military men and women lost been worth the fight? What more do we have to show
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