Slideshow: From the battlefields to the streets of LA
Photos to accompany Lena Nozizwe’s piece investigating issues of homelessness among veterans in Los Angeles. Her piece can be heard here.
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- Every Sunday for almost seven years Robert Rosebrock has protested in front of the West LA VA campus. One of his protest signs reads “Open These Gates!”
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- Activist and Army veteran Robert Rosebrock says a laundry, bird sanctuary and baseball field have no place on the land deeded to veterans.
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- During the day Donald Bayer sits on the cardboard he sleeps on at night. He says he has been homeless since 2007.
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- A cardboard sign under the freeway bridge near the West LA VA campus asks for help and shares a blessing.
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- The size of the group of veterans protesting in front of the West LA VA campus for almost seven years varies from week to week.
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- Veteran Donald Bayer, standing under the LA freeway where he lives, says sickness led to his hospitalization and then homelessness.
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- Veteran Michael Aldrich says he has been on the streets for some 20 years. He says recently he received a Section 8 voucher and he credits the Obama administration for helping him finally find shelter in LA.
