Black People : Remembering Our Veterans

After completing their deployment, veterans return home to a joyous welcome and a country that is still intact,
??????

Your premiss regarding looking at the victims side is on point since this Friday was/is actually Armistice day , a holiday created at the end of WW I in the hope of the end of all wars, however have you taken a real look at what these "mostly-poor-and-had-no-otherchoice" vets come home to?

How about joblessness


How about lack of health care
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23954.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4299566...veterans-encounter-va-mental-health-meltdown/

How about homelessness
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/8/22/former_homeless_veteran_describes_how_horrors

How about suicide, one way or another
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/18/wars_hidden_death_toll_after_service

And while billions are being poured into building up Iraq and Afghanistan, veterans of African descent return to hoods, economical neglected and disenfranchised
 

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