Ken Schram: 'Support our troops' is meaningless..a must read

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By Ken Schram
SEATTLE - Support the troops.

It's a nice catchphrase, but what does it really mean?

It should mean more than sending them cookies and toiletries while on station and then seeing right through them once they come home.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has identified about 1,500 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as being homeless.

Granted, that's but a small fraction of the estimated 336,000 vets that are grappling with life on the street in this country, but it's a number that should slap at us and startle us into action.

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