Veteran's Day
Didn't want to write Happy Veteran's Day--because it doesn't seem to be the case. NPR this morning was reporting "Nearly 1 in 8 veterans who left the service in the past decade is unemployed." Specifically "Some 240,000 veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are out of work." And then this from a published study on homelessness: "Homeless veterans are more likely to die on the streets than non-veterans, a new study revealed." Yesterday at Cornerstone Community Outreach, the shelter I volunteer at and lead discussion and creative writing groups, there was a HUGE Veteran's Day party. CCO Director Sandy Ramsey said she met an older gentleman at a bus stop and from talking discovered he was a Tuskegee Airmen. I'd seen the movie--though someone told me Denzel was not in that film--must've been thinking about Glory . Anyway, Sandy invited him and any other airmen in the area to the Veteran's Day party at the shelter. She al...