"WHAT? Phoenix has NO veterans who are homeless?"
Phoenix last month was credited as the first city to end chronic homelessness among military veterans, part of a nationwide push.
Skip to the end for that story, or just go Google -- 's why I quoted that.
And now the beginning I wrote before I happened upon today's happy-tearsiest story:
Probably five minutes before I clicked to publish yesterday's diary, I saw more articles about "the homeless," that homogeneous mass we all know and too many people ignore.
Coincidentally, around this time of year, groups all over the country count how many people in their areas are homeless so money can be either appropriated or fought for on behalf of people whose address is a park bench or a shelter.
I didn't know that event was looming when I wrote Cold. I just ... you see so many pictures from warm showing cold, and what about the people who can't get to the warm and don't have a camera to display the cold?
Today and for the next week or so -- the event has different names in different places, and the counts all seem to be taking place around now -- we will find out roughly how many people in America are homeless, according to the best efforts of the tens of thousands of volunteers who count them.
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