Homeless Veterans Essay

I founded CAVS 4 VETS after my dad and I had the honor of hosting several veterans from the Wounded Warrior project on our deer lease. After my time with them, I knew my teammates and I could do something to give back to these veterans and others that fought and sacrificed for our freedoms. Lake Travis High School strongly encourages community service, but I wanted to start something that directly benefits our Central Texas Veterans. Cavs 4

Veterans and our soldiers are coming home from war or getting out of the military and when they get home they can’t afford rent or they have a mental disease from war. Homeless veterans tend to experience homelessness longer than non-veteran homeless. This should not be happening to our soldiers. This is very undesirable for our troops to come home and becoming homeless. They fight for our freedom and our rights and we repay them by becoming homeless.

When writing my exploratory paper I got a better chance to go into depth into my topic and seen multiple different perspectives. I think the exploratory essay gave me a better chance to understand a topic in which most people tend ignore or do not really care about. My topic is “Homeless Veterans in America”. I think I chose this topic because when I walk down the streets I see a homeless person holding up a “I am a homeless veteran”. I had a question in my head.

“It would‘ve been a rough transition if it weren’t for Veteran Student Life” Carroll said. Moreover, Carroll includes that the staff provides support, care and a welcoming attitude, which is essential to the students who know how to be in the military, but may not know how to transition into being a veteran. These vets, who are typically older than the average UMD student, have lost friends, toured the world and even created families of their own. Since veterans have a unique background, Student Veteran Life invests in these students with extra resources like counseling and team building

Understanding Veterans More than 50,000 americans died in Vietnam (Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics), but what for? In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States was involved in the Vietnam War. The country had split into North and South Vietnam where the North favored communism and the south democracy. The United States entered the war in hopes of protecting the democracy that South Vietnam was trying to create. In understanding the experiences of veterans it is important to follow the training the soldiers went through, the diseases they became at risk of, and how people treated them when they returned home.

When I was young, my grandparents taught me that one’s purpose is to serve others and spread love and compassion. In high school, I’ve been able to live that lesson and work to help others. For the last three years, I’ve had the honor of being the BHS Acceptance Club’s president. In 2014, I was part of a campaign to stop the use of slurs at Brevard High and helped create a video to educate the student body on the harmful nature of such words.

Homeless veterans and how they live on the streets and how they got homeless. Also how our government is trying to get rid of so many homeless Veterans. Society needs to invest in homeless veterans problem. Homelessness “Is not having a place to live.”

I do believe that I have new insights on this problem. I learned that veterans were not even scared of ending up homeless, mostly because they were unaware of the statistics of homeless veterans. I think that when people are entering the military, they should be made aware of these statistics. It might scare them, but they will probably better prepare so they will not come home and be alone or homeless when they come back, I also think that free housing should be given to veterans for risking their lives for our

An epidemic is raging through the country: one that is a war on its own. It is the homeless veteran scourge. Homeless veterans have become a common occurrence in today’s society; they can be seen sitting in the street of nearly every metropolitan area of the United States. The men and women who so bravely defend the nation have been abandoned and left unprotected on the streets. This tragedy must be put to an end.

Homeless veterans need more help After all the things that homeless veterans have done for this country, they need more help. Many times, veterans will be seriously injured while in service. Whether it’s a physical or mental injury, they are serious.

The goals to bring awareness to the citizens of the US that veterans homelessness is a growing social problem in our society and that they need more assistants. Not only does this problem affect our veterans physically emotionally and mentally, it also affects how america 's youth perceives the government due to their neglect of our homeless vertarans.

This class and my service learning experience has opened by eyes to the dehumanization on homeless individuals in our community. The “otherness” I have felt towards the homeless community has disappeared. I feel more comfortable interacting with homeless individuals. Now more than ever, I make an effort to make eye contact and smile with I see homeless individuals on the street. What stayed with me most during my service learning experience was the community I became a part of at St. Francis House.

In 2012 (before I came to St Petes) the principal at that time, Ms. Kathy Ross committed suicide. Although I didn't come to St Petes until 2014, I could still see the devastating effect it had on my school community. People still spoke about her in the most endearing terms, and it was common to hear my peers bring her up with reverent. This tragedy had long-lasting effects that continue to this day. Then just this past year, tragedy struck our school once again.

Death in the United States is a multi billion dollar industry. Cremations, embalming, caskets, urns, memorial services, overhead, and fees for funeral home staffers, each of which alone prove costly to the average person, can run many families into the red trying to satisfy the need to provide the best for their departed loved one (Lyons 4). Resultant ceremonies produced from these efforts may even fall short of the grieving and honorary atmosphere intended only to replace it with overbearing silence and impersonality (Ramshaw 2, 3). What flies below the awareness of much of American society is the fact alternatives to the expensive, distant funerals of today have been available all along. Home funerals eclipse the standard modern ceremony

Service Learning and Service Emphasis Week My highs during SEW week first occurred to me when we first arrived in the orphanage and how the kids were cheering and hugging us as if we hadn’t seen each other for years, these kids never knew us but acted and trusted as like they did. One of my favorite moments I recall was when we (as a team) were playing with the kids, and just seeing them smile was enough to make our hearts pound with joy. We spent most of our time teaching them, and I remember them always getting my name right and they would call the rest of my friends “mzungu” meaning “whites”.