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Nov 6 2008 1:00 AM

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Homeless Veterans

One in four homeless people in the United States are veterans. Nearly half of those homeless veterans have a diagnosable mental illness. One Iraq War veteran tells Associated Press reporter Kimberly Hefling: "The only training I have is infantry training and there's not really a need for that in the civilian world."

Related: "Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans" (New York Times)

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