Homeless Vet

Thank God for actor Robert Di Nero. He has had a massive building created. Its purpose is to house veterans. One wing includes medical help, mental health help, food and bedding in another. I am the niece of a Vietnam double amputee vet, who became a senator 10 years after he got his prosthesis on. I am also the step daughter of a Navy Seal. Your poem is so important and so relevant, I am so glad to have come across it. It is a sad poem but an important one. It moved me Hilda.

Hello Hilda, you have penned a classic here. Shamefully, many U.S. veterans are homeless. I’ve heard conflicting reports that the VA system just had cuts to veterans mental health care. If I were wealthy like Elon Musk I would establish veterans free mental health services. Your sensitive poem is a voice for them. Bravo! Blessings ~

- I feel a strong loneliness in this cage, Hilda ... excellently written :) - hugs

When walls of houses become cages, there will be no joy, but only rage. Powerfully written triolet.

Powerful and poignant! I admire you have so many forms you are skillful in writing!

Back once, when I had been to the USA, I saw some homeless veterans near the Whitehouse, some were wheel chair bound. It was sad to see them like that.

A hard life!

A very touching write, Hilda. It’s so painful the way we have become. Stay blessed my friend.

Awesome write,,Hilda, a FAV and deserving of a POTD. And thank you very much for letting know me that you got the reply. Ii did not choose the word showing AI did that and I really despise AI. I am not a village idiot. Nobody here iI have degree in education and graduated Cum Laude! AI spelled it wrong, So I don’t need a device to tell me, how to say it in my own unique way!. I wish I could cut off AI AI does not have a mind and is an inhumane, device. Pangie

This breaks my heart. Those who fight for righteousness are often scorned. Beautiful poem.

'Hard sidewalk's bed' is really mind-numbing. Way too many veterans experience this 'Welcome Home' treatment from a woke, ungrateful America. ~ gw

This is very sad. Your use of language to convey the attitude here is raw, but beautifully said.

Hilda, you wrote an amazing poem that is both moving and captivating.

Sometimes those who give the most for society, are treated the worst, if not overlooked and forgotten entirely. Well done, Hilda.

Excellent poem Hilda….Sad! Debx

outstanding poem, Hilda...engagaing and poignant. faving

Though visits are gone now to his lineage, Somewhere a photo praises his homage... such a sad and poignant write. We don’t write the homeless off but pray for them and help with their needs.