Thread: Support the Troops

This is hilarious.

In the nearly two years Cpl. John Callahan of the Army was away from home, his wife, he said, had two extramarital affairs. She failed to pay his credit card bills. And their two children were sent to live with her parents as their home life deteriorated.

Then, in November, his machine gun malfunctioned during a firefight, wounding him in the groin and ravaging his left leg. When his wife reached him by phone after an operation in Germany, Corporal Callahan could barely hear her. Her boyfriend was shouting too loudly in the background.

Entire & Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/us...hp&oref=slogin

Vets on the Street



By Sarah Childress
Newsweek
Updated: 11:41 a.m. PT Feb 24, 2007

Feb. 24, 2007 - Kevin Felty came back from Iraq in 2003 with nowhere to stay, and not enough money to rent an apartment. He and his wife of four years moved in with his sister in Florida, but the couple quickly overstayed their welcome. Jobless and wrestling with what he later learned was posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Felty suddenly found himself scrambling to find a place for himself and his wife, who was six-months pregnant. They found their way to a shelter for homeless veterans, which supported his wife during her pregnancy and helped Felty get counseling and find a job. A year later, he's finally thinking his future. "I don't want to say this is exactly where I want to be—it's really not," he says. "But it's what I can get at the moment."

Entire & Link: Hundreds of Iraq Vets Are Homeless - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com

To say nothing of the homeless, destitute Iraqi's. Well over one million of them.
Neighbouring Jordan and to an extent Syria deserve to be congratulated for the way they have supported the large amount of refugee's from this humanitarian catastrophe, but they are now feeling the strain and making it harder for Iraqi's to enter the country.