Comments on: More Veterans Calling The Streets Home

An Estimated 200,000 U.S. War Veterans Are Homless

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%u201CThe Muslim-American sailor drowned that pain in alcohol%u201D What does the Sailor%u2019s Religion have to do with the story, would it be different if he was a Buddhist-American or Atheist-American? Posted by rray52

I don't know about a Buddhist, but, yes, it would be different for an atheist, a catholic, a protestant, or almost any christian or jew.

You don't see the irony? Drinking alcohol is forbidden in the Islamic religion.

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"Mandatory Military service should be a requirement of citizenship." Posted by omega39

Amen! And it should be absolutely required if ANYONE wants to work in government service, including, especially including, serving in congress and the white house. (And four years in the national guard defending your town's post office doesn't count!)

Maybe, just maybe, they would think twice about starting sensless wars...

[gunnerv1]

When you quit a job, what does your former employer owe you besides any accrued pay/vacation time/pay and/or serverance pay. This is the same thing that the Military does for service members. They are not owed anything other that accrued pay and leave pay (vacation, Everybody gets 30 days a year, no matter what pay level/grade) if they are not injured. If they are injured then they are owed care for the extent of the injuries incurred while on active duty only. They know this when they are elisted into the Armed Services.

[emhawks]

"In the eyes of empire builders, men are not men but instruments."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

[gunnerv1]

NYCKATE: Again, check your facts. If they are/were Active Duty, then they are onto a job search just like anybody else. If they are/were Reserve/Army/Air/Guard then their Previous employers are required to have a either the job for them or the job the left when called up. It's a federal law.

[gunnerv1]

IIFFV: You really need to do a "Fact Check". Only 10 per cent of the American Population were servicemen during WWII

[nyckate]

thgdriver - I've a feeling that vets see and experience things that many of us don't - and some see and experience worse things than other - and some handle it different - some came home from WWII and drank themselves sick - others were okay and then others were abusive -- its human nature that no two people react exactly the same.

If you aren't human or christian enough to recognize that then there's something wrong with YOU.

ALso - a lot of these vets are coming back to no jobs and no families - the strains of their service have reverberated throughout all parts of their lives - the divorce rate is high and the reservists never anticipated this length of service and have lost homes, etc. through loss of wages.

One would have to be a really selfish little rat not to be able to see that.

[iiffv]

Barbaraf4 - what an ignorant uncaring unchristian thug you are.
Posted by NYCKATE at 11:06 AM : Mar 26, 2007

She WAS just a bit insensitive!

[nyckate]

Barbaraf4 - what an ignorant uncaring unchristian thug you are.

[iiffv]

All? no. Some? Yes


Posted by thgdriver at 10:55 AM : Mar 26, 2007

Agreed. But I do feel that it would have been better to make that qualification from the get go.