Reply #78: Then thank you. All I asked is that you use the voice you have to speak out on our behalf.

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Like the animals that some prefer to care about, we homeless people have NO VOICE.

We depend on people like you to remember us and to speak out, because we are hurting very deeply from being constantly ignored. I can't even begin to tell you what it does to our spirits, and I can't even begin to tell you the fear that overcomes us when we hear of a disaster like this one, and all these "be prepared" pronouncements. No wonder so many of us have the symptoms of PTSD... its a continual wearing away process of our very beings.

I am hurt that you would stoop to saying something as harsh as I "Purposely overlook"...blah blah blah. And I have given up on DU saying that I'm hurt by things, because then I'm mocked for expressing pain. Do you begin to have an inkling now of what I'm contending with? Damned for every possible move and every possible expression.

If you all could just walk in our shoes for even a short time....