Homeless vets starting new lives

Homeless vets starting new lives

By Mindy Blake - email

TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - On any given night there are 700 homeless veterans sleeping in temporary shelters or on the streets of Tucson.

For many of them, homelessness is just one problem.

If they had a permanent place to stay, they could begin to deal with their other difficulties.

There is a place they can go for help.

It's the first step to getting out of a painful and dangerous cycle.

Navy veteran David Smith doesn't get to sit in an air conditioned room very often.

"I'm experiencing some difficulty in my life. I've been living in a wash for the past six weeks."

And before that, David lived in his pickup truck for two years.
read more here
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12737436