MetaFilter posts tagged with vets

Scenes from "The War Tapes"

McLir — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:56:00 -0800

TED presentation: "Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which put cameras in the hands of Charlie Company, a unit of the National Guard, for one year in Iraq. The soldiers' raw footage and diary excerpts tell a powerful, unsettling story of modern war.

Vets against war

c13 — Sun, 21 May 2006 19:17:55 -0800

A 20-minute video that will change your life! Well, maybe not.

Homeless vets from the War on Terror

jenleigh — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:24:41 -0800

The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans says soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are beginning to request help from service providers. Stars & Stripes: "Advocates for the homeless already are seeing veterans from the war on terror living on the street, and say the government must do more to ease their transition from military to civilian life. Boone said the reasons behind the veterans' housing problems are varied: Some have emotional and mental issues from their combat experience, some have trouble finding work after leaving the military, some have health care bills which result in financial distress." Philly.com has more (Reg Req, or view here) on a recently homeless vet from Philadelphia.

Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters

Postroad — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:30:17 -0800

Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era.

Homeless Soldier

PrinceValium — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:42:33 -0800

Yesterday, Iraq. Today, homeless in the Bronx. Welcome back, soldier, and god bless America.

milkman — Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:03:31 -0800

More disturbing mismanagement in Kansas City This time at the VA hospital: A recent report in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine said that the hospital in Kansas City was overrun with flies and mice in mid-1998. Nurses even found maggots growing in the noses of two comatose patients. Both patients, astoundingly, were in the intensive-care unit.