At least 3,000 homeless veterans live in the Baltimore metropolitan area, which includes Anne Arundel County, according to social worker Patricia Lane, coordinator of homeless veterans programs at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Baltimore.
Ms. Lane said her program gets about 20 new clients each month, most of them vets from the Vietnam Era.
"Right now, Iraq and Afghanistan vets are so young, they have not exhausted their (private) resources," Ms. Lane said.
Ms. Lane said that veterans' homelessness is sometimes caused by delayed combat stress, but more often it afflicts veterans who suffered from depression and...
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