LISTEN UP, BILL O'REILLY

FOX NEWS' Bill O'Reilly, host of "The Factor," has been on a rampage claiming the homeless veterans story has been exaggerated. O'Reilly took most of his outrage out on Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards, who said homeless veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were sleeping under bridges.

As usual, Bill O'Reilly has nothing to backup his claims the homeless veterans stories are overblown other than his big mouth.

Below is a story of just one Iraq veteran who O'Reilly says doesn't exist.

The stories of homeless veterans are much too long for this blog and so if you are interested in reading more about homeless veterans click on the tiny URL link provided below and read the whole account.

How does Bill O'Reilly keep getting away with lying?

The answer lies in the management of FOX NEWS who have shown in the past their disdain for the men and women serving in our military by relegating any news on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to a crawl along the bottom of the screen, and many times not even that.

Bill Corcoran, military veteran and former member of the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, and host of the only blog in the United States devoted to telling the truth about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: http://corksphere.blogspot.com/

New generation of homeless vets emerge


By ERIN McCLAM, AP National Writer Sun Jan 20, 7:57 AM ET

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LEEDS, Mass. - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident — car crash, broken collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife's new job but away from his best friends.

And then self-destruction: He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat. He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest.

He would pull out his gun, a .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol. He would lovingly clean it, or just look at it and put it away. Sometimes place it in his mouth.

"I don't know what to do anymore," his wife, Anna, told him one day. "You can't be here anymore."

Peter Mohan never did find a steady job after he left Iraq. He lost his wife — a judge granted their divorce this fall — and he lost his friends and he lost his home, and now he is here, in a shelter.

He is 28 years old. "People come back from war different," he offers by way of a summary.
This is not a new story in America: A young veteran back from war whose struggle to rejoin society has failed, at least for the moment, fighting demons and left homeless.

But it is happening to a new generation. As the war in Afghanistan plods on in its seventh year, and the war in Iraq in its fifth, a new cadre of homeless veterans is taking shape.

And with it come the questions: How is it that a nation that became so familiar with the archetypal homeless, combat-addled Vietnam veteran is now watching as more homeless veterans turn up from new wars?

What lessons have we not learned? Who is failing these people? Or is homelessness an unavoidable byproduct of war, of young men and women who devote themselves to serving their country and then see things no man or woman should?

Click on the link above to read the rest of this story and about other homeless vets who Bill O'Reilly of FOX NEWS says is only a pipedream.