“You have to understand how desperate a person has to be to seek help, leave, get a gun and go back to kill. It wasn’t on his mind when he went there to take somebody’s life, but something snapped inside of him to where his mental pain became unbearable and he thought that maybe lashing out at people would bring attention to the fact that he was injured.”
Advocacy groups estimate that at least 1,500 veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are sleeping rough in America’s cities. Have the lessons of Vietnam been learned?