Time Is Short for Audacious Goal: End Vet Homelessness

Time is short for audacious goal: End vet homelessness
At 51, with a history of drug use and illness, Smith in many ways is the face of veteran homelessness that Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has vowed to end by 2015, a goal that became Obama administration policy in 2010. Veterans …
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The late Irving Kolin was a Winter Park psychiatrist
A commander in the U.S. Navy, Kolin came to Orlando with his wife, Shelley, during the Vietnam War to open the Orlando Naval Hospital in 1969. He was honorably discharged in 1971 and founded a private medical practice. Topics · Orange County (Florida) …
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PTSD and war's effects on veterans can take a heavy toll on families
The family tension that divided his sisters and tore through two of his marriages began the day Hutchinson DuBosque Jr. returned home in 1968 — Vietnam War demons close behind. With the celebratory aroma of a roast beef and … They can be slow to …
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