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A 1990 study by The Ohio State University showed as many as 30,000 veterans were homeless over the past year. The federal government studies show on any given night, 150,000 veterans are homeless and that 500,000 veterans are homeless annually. The National Coalition for the Homeless says the numbers are higher. There are more homeless Vietnam veterans in America than died in that war. Where are the protesters? Where are the screaming students on our streets demanding that this terrible wrong be righted? They are safe on our campuses while yet another group of young men and women protect their way of life. In the near future there will be another 170,000 men and women coming home from protecting our way of life, our countries ideas. We cheered them as they left the bases after 9/11. When they took Baghdad we stood around our TV’s hoping that it was over. Many of these brave men and women will come home after it is all over and try to start again the lives they put on hold to protect our way of life. Please help Veterans First Foundation help those that cannot put the horrors of war out of their minds. Help us help the men and women that will have to wait for the wheels of the government to turn so that they can begin to heal.

Many of our veterans in the VA hospitals are in need also. When they check in for an extended stay they lose their apartments do to failure to pay rent. By the time they are released, their possessions are no longer there. Now the veteran has lost the only things allot of them have. They are homeless and have no clothing. Veterans first is setting up clothing shops in areas that are accessible to these veterans so that they can reclaim some of their lost dignity.

Another way veterans first would like to help Disable/disadvantaged veterans is through a scholarship for their children. It is hard for a veteran that has lost part of his/her earning power due to a service-connected disability to afford the dream of college for their children. Your donations to our foundation can help make these and other dreams possible for the veteran and his/her family.

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Veterans First Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) charitable foundation and your tax-deductible contributions to help our veterans can be mailed to the above address. Thank you for supporting our soldiers !

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