Homeless Veterans Initiative

VFP's Mark Foreman interviewed on popular podcast

Homelessness is a complex social problem with many reasons on how a person becomes homeless. Veterans are twice as likely to become homeless, with an estimate of almost 25% of Milwaukee's homeless population being veterans. Listen to Mark Foreman talk about The Milwaukee Chapter of Veterans for Peace Homeless Veterans Initiative.

Listen to Dennis Johnson, Executive Director of the program, interviewed by Bob Bach on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio morning news show "Life Voices"
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=7359

Find out more at www.neverhomeless.org our site dedicated just to the Homeless Veterans Initiative.

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By Jennifer Senior

As it approaches its tenth year, our nation's longest war is showing signs of waning. Meanwhile, our soldiers are falling apart.

The first time I meet David Booth, a 39-year-old former medic and
surgeon's assistant who retired this past spring after nineteen years in
the active Army Reserve, I make the awkward mistake of proposing we go
out to lunch. It seems a natural suggestion. The weather is still warm,
and he has told me to meet him in the lobby of his office downtown, so I
assume he wants to go out, not back to his desk, when I show up around
noon. But it turns out that in the six months he has been at his job,
Booth has never left his office in the middle of the day, except to run
across the street, and he is simply too polite to say so. From the
moment we step outside, it's clear how unusual this excursion is for
him. As we walk, he hews close to the buildings on his right (If a building's to my right, no one is going to walk by me on my right), and
when we arrive at the restaurant, he quietly takes a seat at the table
closest to the door, his back against the wall. His large brown eyes
immediately start darting around.

How's your sleep? I ask him.
I don't, he answers.

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