"To care for him who shall has borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan," promised Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.
So the question remains, are we really keeping Lincoln 's promise all the veterans and their families? First off, who is qualified for entering for benefits and medical services? Coming from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs or known as the VA if one enlisted after September 7, 1980, or entered active duty after October 16, 1981, and must of served for 24 continuous months, served the full time they were called to serve, and serviced actively only then is the veterans eligible to apply for help from the VA. The VA also states along with it if you were injured physically, suffer from mental trauma, and or discharged for hardship the requirements may not apply. It sounds good all veterans except ones that have been dishonorably discharged get medical care. How quick and how good is the health care? If a person makes it out of the military, has a good education, and does good for his or herself they a good living and they surpass the VA limit on income they no long qualify for VA health care. So you go out
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Second, 47,725 veterans are homeless according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Why so many homeless? It wasn 't until the 80 's that they started to find mental changes some severe mental changes after seeing the horror of war. Each scene plays out in their head known as post traumatic stress disorder or also know as PTSD causing it hard to function at work or in public traumatic brain injury, know as TBI, ties in with with PTSD. How does this affect the homelessness rates of veterans, as statics show and according to VA General inspector mental trauma is the cause for over 50 percent of the homelessness among veterans. We must do something about it if we can fix that we could help more well deserving veterans get on their feet so they can live a well deserved and good