Reply #4: Too bad O'Reilly can't learn to 'google' or that none of his 'fans' could check out what the VA has [View All]

[sinkingfeeling]

to say:

Although accurate numbers are impossible to come by -- no one keeps national records on homeless veterans -- the VA estimates that nearly 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. And nearly 400,000 experience homelessness over the course of a year. Conservatively, one out of every three homeless men who is sleeping in a doorway, alley or box in our cities and rural communities has put on a uniform and served this country. According to the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Urban Institute, 1999), veterans account for 23% of all homeless people in America.

http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

WASHINGTON -- Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110800234.html

About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 195,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.
http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=1

Here's the one we all should look at: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/436/t/26/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=884

Sign the open letter to Bill O'Reilly, and urge him to set the record straight.