Support the troops? Then Support the Truth

For those that talk about supporting the troops, yet continually send them into harms way so that an elite few can profit-
if you support the war then why don't you sign up and let a soldier who wants to come home do so. Now that is what I call supporting the troops.

Some facts about veterans not normally shared:

An estimated at least 400,000 veterans spend some time during the year homeless with nearly 100,000 each day but with a national homeless population near 3.5 million and 25% of those being vets, actual numbers would be closer to 850,000 homeless vets.

Male homeless vets make up a full 1/3 of the total male homeless population.
67% served more than 3 years and 90% received honorable discharges.
75% have substance abuse issues and nearly half are 45 years old or older.
-National Coalition for Homeless Vets

Vets are 3 times more likely to be unemployed (15% for current war vets).
- military.com

Vets are 2 ½ times more likely to not have a high school diploma, 10% less likely to graduate from college (34% for non-vet and 26% for vets) and are nearly 3 times more likely to experience living in poverty in any annual period (5% to 12.3%). Statistics also don’t reflect populations living in institutions, group homes, or without homes.
- US census, 2005

From Iraq to the WWI and the Bonus Army, veterans have always been tossed to the side by the economic benefactors of wartime once they were of no more use.