- Introduction
"According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, 33 percent
of all homeless men are veterans, as is nearly one-fourth of the homeless
population in general."
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- Interview 1: Andy "I have no future.
My future is death. I'm looking forward to that. Most 'Nam vets are...
And that's one of the reason I do drugs, you know? To kill that pain. I
live with demons, you know? I can't explain that to you. Only a 'Nam vet
can understand."
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- Interview 2: Joseph "You can sleep
on the streets now easier than it ever happened before. A year ago, the
spots where I'm sleeping, they would never allow it. But with the business
failure and the dot-com and all that stuff that blew out of here, all them
places are empty. All them big buildings, they're all empty."
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- Interview 3: Rusty "I can only think
of four people in the two years I was [in Vietnam] who did not do drugs
of some sort... The sergeant got ahold of those drugs and gave it to you.
There were three different types of heroin... Oh, God, any type of drug
you wanted, I probably did it in Vietnam. Mostly speed to keep you up."
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- Interview 4: "Viola I joined the
merchant seamen... stayed there for over 15 years. 'You did [crack cocaine]
the whole time you were in the merchant marine?' Yes. No problem getting
drugs."
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- Interview 5: Dave "I'm 70 percent
disabled. I get $60 a month for it. Agent Orange in my lungs.
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- Epilogue:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/archive/2003/11/11/hvepi.DTL
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