Summary
There are 130,000 homeless veterans in the US. In Los Angeles alone there are up to 18,000, around 19% of the city's total homeless population. As Peter Bowes discovers in Down And Out In The City Of Angels (BBC Radio 4, tomorrow, 11am), these male and female veterans vary in age from early twenties to late sixties, and their service histories take in conflicts as far apart in time as Vietnam and Iraq.
Bowes meets some of them and hears their stories, interspersed between soundbites from Barack Obama - "No-one who served in our uniform should sleep on our streets" goes one - and platitudes from Arnold Schwarzenegger.See the full content of this document
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Radio: Homeless Veterans On Skid Row
Michael Wright, a 55-year-old former drug addict with mental health problems, ser...
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