In America, Veteran, and Homeless

Contrary to the significantly less than truthful claims of the vast right wing noise machine, a new generation of homeless vets emerge

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.

The right wing television and radio pundits that deny this problem may very well suffer from this next point found in the article.

Others point to something more difficult to define, something about American culture that - while celebrating and honoring troops in a very real way upon their homecoming - ultimately forgets them.

Forgetting them seems to be key. Its a matter of wanting the scenario to be completely different from reality. How often in the past 5 years of this self destructive war has this been the case. Its forgetting and being blinded by the reality because reality is totally broken.

The pundits are so compelled and driven by their ideological allegiances that reality is masked by a rosy projection of victory and a smug sense of self righteous indignation. The authoritarian is never wrong. If reality interferes, then the hell with reality.