On this Fourth of July, I couldn't help but think of the more than 100,000 homeless veterans wandering the streets of America. I feel shamed by the fact that we Americans ask people to leave their homes and families to take up arms in foreign countries to defend us and when they come back home we do not see that they receive adequate care.
COLUMN: Veterans are underappreciated
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CDT;
updated 3:57 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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