I Am Becoming Embarrassed For My Country As A Veteran

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23. For a few people, it is a choice

I once met a man who was living in a wheelchair in the streets of Los Angeles. He told me that he had some place in Altadena that he could go to, but it was too far away and besides, he preferred to live on the streets. I couldn't understand his attitude.

And not too long ago, there was a TV program about homeless people here in Japan. A lot of them camp out in "blue sheet towns" along river banks in Tokyo and elsewhere. While some of the men the program interviewed said that they were not homeless by choice, others said that the daily pressures of life had become too much for them and that they actually found some solace and camaraderie in their homeless communities.