Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

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August 16, 2007

Homeless vets deserve more attention



During the course of this summer, I’ve read countless stories in your newspaper about our brave soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. You also had several stories covering the events surrounding Memorial Day and Independence Day.

I’m grateful for your coverage of these issues because I believe our soldiers and veterans are true heroes.

However, I wish you’d pay more attention to an even more difficult subject: The terrible plight facing our homeless veterans in this nation.

Currently, over 200,000 veterans are homeless, and that number is growing every month. 90,000 of those men and women have a terminal illness.

Our government has not established a national hospice network to comfort these heroes during their darkest hours. In fact, the Veterans Administration has shown that it cannot meet the bare minimum of service to our veterans.

If more Americans knew how big of a disaster this situation is, we could finally address this problem. So please, the next time one of your reporters sees a homeless veteran sleeping on a sidewalk, have him ask the man a few questions. I’m sure he’d have plenty to say.

Naomi L. Rech

Princeton, W.Va.

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