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Here, Iraq veteran Mike Lally walks through the main entrance of a veterans shelter
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eter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself Tshirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.
Different Wars, Same Problems With the war in Afghanistan in its seventh year and the war in Iraq in its fifth, the Department of Defense says about 1,500 veterans of the conflicts are homeless -- and many more could be in the coming years. There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident — car crash, broken collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife's new job but away from his best friends. And then self-destruction: He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat. He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest. (Continued on page 6)
Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens
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come out late next summer. The feature will spread to the entire o you think junior is a little too Ford, Lincoln and Mercury lineup lead-footed when he drives the as models are updated, spokesman family car? Starting next year, Wes Sherwood said. Ford Motor Co. will give you the Ford arrived at the 80 power to do something about it. mph limit even though freeway The company will roll out speed limits are a new feature on many lower in most states 2010 models that can “Speeding is a major because it wanted to limit teen drivers to 80 mph, using a computer factor in teen crashes” leave a margin in case an unusual chip in the key. situation arises, Parents also Buczkowski said. In some states, have the option of programming freeway speed limits are above 70 the teen's key to limit the audio mph, Sherwood said. system's volume, and to sound "Just lopping it off at excontinuous alerts if the driver doesactly 70 mph was felt to be too n't wear a seat belt. "Our message to parents limiting," Buczkowski said. The company already uses is, hey, we are providing you some computer chips in its keys to preconditions to give your new drivers vent thefts. The car won't start that may allow you to feel a little unless it recognizes the chip in the more comfortable in giving them key. the car more often," said Jim "It's making use of existBuczkowski, Ford's director of ing technology, and through the electronic and electrical systems magic of software, we're able to engineering. build features on top of the features The feature, called we already have," Buczkowski "MyKey," will be standard on an said. unspecified number of Ford mod(Continued on page 7) els when the 2010 cars and trucks
s we send troops off to Iraq to fight for our freedom and safety they are coming back injured and disabled. The President is firm on using these soldiers for their duty and that duty is to protect America. However, when they come back we the people, we America should be there for them so we do not have another Vietnam situation where our Vets are treated as garbage. It seems that we are so eager to send them off to war but when they return disabled we do not give them what they deserve. I am glad the President has decided to protect us but I am upset at this current war, maybe we could have done something a little different. I am not saying it is his entire fault it is our entire leaders fault. I am very upset that this Country sends people off to war but as we have all learned this week that the government intends on cutting funding for our veterans. It is a very sad day in our American History. Last month you all saw a little story about this issue and learned that the Homeless Voice has been lobbying government leaders to make sure that we don’t have homeless vets from this Iraq War like we did in the past. We formed The American Veter(Continued on page 7)
Plantation teen gets life in prison for beating death of homeless man
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arents' details of neglect, dysfunctional upbringing fail to win son a second chance A life sentence was harsher than Samuel Gaynor anticipated for the man who clubbed his sleeping son to death on a Fort Lauderdale bench. "It touched me when she said 'life,'" Gaynor said about hearing Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato sentence Thomas Daugherty, 19, on Thursday. "Such a short word, such a long time." At his trial last month, Daugherty was shown on videotape repeatedly walloping a defenseless man with a baseball bat. That attack on Jacques Pierre at the Las Olas Boulevard campus of Florida Atlantic University was the first of three attacks on homeless men in the early morning hours of Jan. 12, 2006. Pierre, 60, survived. So did the third victim, Raymond Perez, 52. Norris Gaynor, 45, did not. On Sept. 19, Broward County jurors convicted Daugherty and Brian Hooks, 21, both of Plantation, of seconddegree murder and attempted murder for the string of unprovoked attacks. Hooks' sentencing hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today. Daugherty tearfully apologized to Gaynor's family, saying he had "failed as a human being." "I wasted a human life," he said, fighting sobs. "I treated him less (Continued on page 11)