Reality check ... can this really be happening?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Not to sound heartless, but the one question I have is suppose there was no war - would these same people have ended up on the street because that is the way they are?

I ask myself that question all the time, and I don't have an answer. I think I've suffered from depression since long before I went in; I just never knew what it was. At least having been in gives me access to all the available benefits, including VA medical. Of course I'd rather have any other medical.:rotfl:

In my case it's been so long since I got out that I really can't blame war or anything else, though there are VA people who think otherwise.

I feel the worst for folks like the ones in the article: young marrieds, pregnant. They need help a lot more than the rest of us.