OT:Thanksgiving

They just ran a news item here mentioning that the US is preparing to
celebrate Thanksgiving.

Greetings to all concerned. Hope you all have much to be thankful for and
you spend a happy time with families.

They also noted in passing that 800,000 American homeless won't be enjoying
the turkey.

That is a sad thought, but we have all become pretty inured to the lot of
those less fortunate. We feel sorry, do what we can where we can, but accept
that poverty is part of life and an "insoluble" problem.

The thing that astonished me was that 25% of these homeless are War
Veterans. (Korea, Viet Nam, and Afghanistan and the Gulf)

Surely there must be programs to prevent servicepeople from just being
thrown on the scrapheap? We wouildn't want to do that with ANYONE, but
especially not those who have rendered service to their country and done
their duty as it was called (leaving aside the rights and wrongs of US
foreign policy).

Anyone have any comments on this?

Can/is anything be/ing done?

Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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