BBC Reporter Profiles LA's Homeless Veterans

The scariest statistic in BBC correspondent Peter Bowes’ Radio 4 report about LA’s homeless veterans is not so much the estimate that there are close to 8,000 such fallen soldiers currently living on the streets. It’s that the size of this contingent is expected to grow as the U.S. pulls back forces from Afghanistan.

Among those Bowes talked to for his July 3 dispatch were Megan Jardine, a very cogent sounding 23-year-old former combat medic, and an older gentleman with an even more discordant military background:

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