The Washington Post reports that from “2004 to 2006, the Department of Veterans Affairs provided shelter to 300 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan tours, out of the tens of thousands who have served.” But that figure “is not even close to accurate,” said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, “because it doesn’t include the ‘others sleeping in buses, their cars or on the streets.’”
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