Springfield veteran a casualty of recession

Jamie Bowshier came back from Iraq to a warm welcome, but then lost his family, perhaps because of PTSD coming home with him. I don't know because this article does not address what caused his marriage to break up. This Marine did what was asked of him, ended up wounded, lost his marriage, his job and faces losing his house. Is this right? Is any of this right? Well it keeps happening. While no one really talked about what was going on after Vietnam, this was happening to a lot of the veterans. This is part of how they end up homeless. Can we finally see that we really don't take care of our veterans?

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Springfield veteran a casualty of recession
By Emanuel Cavallaro
Staff Writer
Updated 10:26 AM Sunday, April 26, 2009
SPRINGFIELD — Four years ago, when Jamie Bowshier came home from Iraq, he had everything he wanted in life: A wife, three kids, a job, a house. A promising future.

When he returned to his house on Seymour Street, he found that neighbors had lined the street with American Flags and tied red, white and blue balloons to the stop signs.

His active duty period with the Marine Corps was up in three months.

“At that moment in time, everything seemed like it couldn’t possible be any better,” Bowshier said in April, four years later.

“I made it back, and I was in one piece,” he said. “Everything was good. Everybody was happy to see me, and I was happy to be home.”

Bowshier, 34, is now divorced and has lost custody of his three children. His kitchen countertop is lined with a month’s worth of mail, most of it bad news: late notices, Veterans’ Affairs documents, bills he can’t afford to pay.
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