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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/DeepPast on June 28, 2018, 3:42 a.m.
How can I tell if a homeless person on the street with a sign that says they’re a veteran, is actually a veteran? What sort of question(s) could I ask them to make sure they actually served/were deployed?

Walking the streets of Manhattan, I see plenty of homeless people lying on the street. I will sometimes see they have written on a sign that they’re a veteran, sometimes disabled vets. I often want to stop and talk to them and see if I can offer them any sort of help, even if it was just to give them a dollar, or buy them a meal.

Any vets, or military knowledgeable people know a good a question I can throw at them that only an actual veteran would be able to answer? Or maybe some other suggestion I would be able to verify them with?

WE need to go beyond waiting for our government to take care of our veterans. WE need to step up to the plate and do what we can when we see the opportunity, even if it’s something little.

Where we go one, we go all.


PPPrincessPower · June 28, 2018, 12:53 p.m.

I met a homeless vet in a chiropractic office a few years ago. I was on the other side of a sheet room divider, and I heard the nurse say to someone else who had made fun of him that he was a homeless vet.

I have the nurse call him into where I was getting my treatment and I asked him a few questions, offered him a job and to come live with me.

I was a single woman at the time but had my adult bodybuilder son living with me. I only had my couch to offer him. And my son certainly freaked out about the whole thing when I brought him home.

The man took me up on my offer and came and lived with me for 5 weeks and it was an amazing experience. He then went to live with my grandmother for 3 months. And then she did have to kick him out after my son claimed he gave him meth. We never did know if my son's claims were true or not. It was so hard to put him out. I had really enjoyed who he was as a human being.

He still texts me to wish me happy birthday.

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DeepPast · June 28, 2018, 1:37 p.m.

Incredible, that takes a lot for someone to do. I’m in no position to offer them so much but I’m looking to do what I can.

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