Hmm, this is a powerful article, remembering the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985. Next week, for the first time since the stadium collapsed, with the help of some Liverpool supporter lout murderers, Liverpool and Juventus will play again, in a Champions League match. What was it with soccer in the 80s? Heysel and Hillsborough I can remember happening, as much as a nine year old can remember international sports stories for the former at least...
Here's another good article - from the Guardian in the UK, warning to any conservatives LOL - about the US veterans coming back from Iraq. Saying how there is bugger all official support for them once they get home, and giving stories about how a small number of them have become homeless - there are already 130 000 veterans that have come back from the war - I think that would include the ones that are still stuck in the forces as well. More a home front story than front lines, but just remembering what happened with the Vietnam vets...
'When Herold and Nicole's stories became public last year, the response was breathtaking. New York Times readers offered Nicole rooms in their homes, baby supplies and pledges of more than $17,000. A woman in California sent a cheque for $10, to be used for "a better life"; an anonymous donor sent a cheque for $1,000, with a note that said, "You risked your life in Iraq for your country... for all of us." Nicole was also offered a $12-an-hour job by a community housing company, which she took so that she could rent a one-room apartment in Harlem from the Coalition for the Homeless.
When Herold explained his situation on the radio, a caller offered him a job - he declined, saying that campaigning for veterans' housing is his job. A couple of weeks later, Herold was given $18,500 and an apartment in the Bronx big enough to reunite his family. He accepted.'
At least a happy ending for these two, with Herold only wanting to get out of the ghetto and be able to throw a barbeque at his white picket fenced house (description from earlier in the article). But it took nine to twelve years after Vietnam for the vets to really drop out into the ranks of the homeless, so a ticking time bomb. And George Tenet gets the medal of freedom for predicting the WMDs LOL. Rolling eyes here.
Later peeps
Pauly
Here's another good article - from the Guardian in the UK, warning to any conservatives LOL - about the US veterans coming back from Iraq. Saying how there is bugger all official support for them once they get home, and giving stories about how a small number of them have become homeless - there are already 130 000 veterans that have come back from the war - I think that would include the ones that are still stuck in the forces as well. More a home front story than front lines, but just remembering what happened with the Vietnam vets...
'When Herold and Nicole's stories became public last year, the response was breathtaking. New York Times readers offered Nicole rooms in their homes, baby supplies and pledges of more than $17,000. A woman in California sent a cheque for $10, to be used for "a better life"; an anonymous donor sent a cheque for $1,000, with a note that said, "You risked your life in Iraq for your country... for all of us." Nicole was also offered a $12-an-hour job by a community housing company, which she took so that she could rent a one-room apartment in Harlem from the Coalition for the Homeless.
When Herold explained his situation on the radio, a caller offered him a job - he declined, saying that campaigning for veterans' housing is his job. A couple of weeks later, Herold was given $18,500 and an apartment in the Bronx big enough to reunite his family. He accepted.'
At least a happy ending for these two, with Herold only wanting to get out of the ghetto and be able to throw a barbeque at his white picket fenced house (description from earlier in the article). But it took nine to twelve years after Vietnam for the vets to really drop out into the ranks of the homeless, so a ticking time bomb. And George Tenet gets the medal of freedom for predicting the WMDs LOL. Rolling eyes here.
Later peeps
Pauly
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