He thinks about crouching in the back of a Humvee
watching bullets crash into fuel tanks during his first firefight,
and about waiting back at base for the vodka his mother sent him,
dyed blue and concealed in bottles of Scope mouthwash.

New Generation Of Homeless Vets Emerges

ERIN MCCLAM Associated Press
| January 20, 2008 11:16 AM EST |
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ONE LOST, IS TOO MANY

One hundred twenty Vets a week
That's more than seventeen per day
Who couldn't handle things they saw
Or the price, they were asked to pay.

Wounds of War don't always show
And feelings are not always spoken
Sometimes the others cannot see
When will, heart, and soul are broken.

It's finally becoming very clear
That, most who go through that hell read more »

This past week I had the honor of helping to set up "The Wall That Heals", a half-sized, traveling replica of "The Wall" in Washington, at the VFW in Dickson, TN. This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the dedication of "The Wall".

FOR A QUARTER CENTURY

They are listed in the order
Of the way our Heroes fell
Behind each name many stories
That, they never got to tell. read more »