I live in an area where the drug abuse is so freaking sad on top of all the opportunity liars. For weeks he has been sitting at the garbage can at my job with a sign saying "veteran need help." Im the manager I just ask him to put the sign away it away but I'm not making him leave but I am not allowed to have anyone at the door asking for anything. I've been repeating myself for weeks every time I see him. Yesterday he was there again with the sign and I told him I'm feeling disrespected that in explaining the same thing to him every time. Then I asked him if he's really a veteran or just some guy with a sign. He's from the marine Corp medically discharged for the refuse of medication because he rather choose the alternative of talk therapy because he has had friends die in explosions 3 times in bagdad. I told him with genuine understanding that I really thank him for his service referencing standing up for his medical decision. I asked him why he is being treated so bad because it's cold outside and he's sitting by a trash can wearing a sheet. He said that they aren't treating him so bad and then he realized and told me that he's been on a 90 day housing waiting list but it's been over 90 days. I told him what I've been going through working a store with a pharmacy and what's gone on with my medical descion. Then I let him know that obviously there is no infiltration happening because obviously that would be crazy and reminded him that I am a civilian. I told him I wish there was more that I could do for him but he told me I'm doing very much and thanked me. I can't stop thinking about this guy. It makes me so freaking sad. All I can do is hope that the conversation I had with him gave him his hope boost.
I also did tell him I do feel bad I keep getting on him about the sign but he reassured me he understood that I just do what I have to do at my job.
Yeah.. so many, many vets in that situation. Do you have a coat you don’t need? You’re appreciated more than you know.
True story. My neighbor across from me is a super nice guy, works like a dog and has a really interesting job but he’s coming and going all the time. I won’t dox him but he’s got a super cool drone. He’s a little hard to get to know though and he doesn’t take care of his yard at all. It sort of looks like hell. I don’t worry about it though, it’s just grass and leaves. That never killed anybody. So, he always has people seemingly staying there. Only men. Different cars, one guy on a trike. Lots of ubers but obviously my actual neighbor drives to work and so they’re not for him. He has no kids. I couldn’t figure out what the deal was and it’s none of my business. I really don’t feel like I should ask “dude.... what’s the DEAL over here?” but I just can’t. I’ve asked him over for a beer a few times and he declined, always so busy so I got nowhere with that.
So one day I was leaving for work and this guy happened to be leaving from his house on the trike. I let him go first on the street and he had a sign on the back “Vets 4 vets”
And then it all dawned on me. My neighbor probably is volunteering with them. It totally makes sense now. He’s letting them stay with him till they get their housing squared away. I felt like bawling. You just don’t know the goodness in people. On the surface they may appear a certain way. Even maybe a little rough..... but they’re out there.
I just thought about it. Years ago there was this navy soldier who talked to me for the 2 years he was coming into the store talking about what we walk about. He was living in a hotel. He one day asked me if I would accept some homemade propaganda he made. I told him I would be interested. He came in and gave me all his books he made. Then I saw him one last time he came in and told me that he hopes I look at the stuff he wrote but doesn't want to pressure me but after giving it to me he said that he finally felt a sense of accomplishment because I seemed to be the only person who would hear him out in this town and he doesn't feel any more need to be here and plans to try another city. Then he confessed to me that he was not a navy vet but that he was actually dishonorably discharged with paranoia skizophrenia when if you read what his "homemade propaganda" is about is just definitions and this actual reality check.
I’m surprised he didn’t get a medical discharge. Dishonorable means they did something really bad like desertion, rape, murder etc. but anyway, what did he talk about in his propaganda?
What the government is doing to it's people.
Sorry, but he sounds like a Valor Thief....
Reason:: Absolutely NOBODY gets a Dishonorable for a Mental Condition Discharge...
A valor theif? I'm intrigued.
For the most part, the best I can describe, they are people who for some reason, probably mental issues, will go out of their way to dress, or tell stories about having been in the Military, when they never were....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s98erQx5Kzg
That makes sense. I'm thinking though he won't take cash from me or any actual help though besides just talk because I'm a girl. His wife lady he was with tonight appears to live in a home based on her appearance. But she was sitting there out there in the cold with him. He might really run on old school values. Im going to have to find a trusted dude to hand my cash over to to get it to him.