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TIME's story on the GREAT HANSHIN EARTHQUAKE of 1995 documented a disaster that left 6,400 dead and 300,000 homeless. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit Japan in 72 years...
...James Brown has already spent four years in the Marines and two months in a homeless shelter. After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan before being honorably discharged last summer, he moved from Dayton, Ohio, to Los Angeles seeking work but soon wound up in a 515-bed facility run by the public-private organization U.S. VETS. Brown's plight is not unique. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is releasing a nationwide survey this week that counted 67 vets from Iraq and Afghanistan in homeless shelters at some point last year. "A lot of guys I met in the service...
...Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has confirmed that there are 38 homeless vets from the Iraq campaign alone, and although this is a tiny fraction of the 168,000-plus soldiers discharged after serving there, experts are surprised to see them show up in shelters so soon. "A lot of Vietnam vets didn't start to experience problems until eight, 10, 12 years later," says Ed Lowry, executive director of the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Education Center. The VA says it is better prepared than it was 30 years ago to catch people before they fall through the cracks...
...December's tsunami that fewer than 100 people died in the disaster, international aid groups were highly suspicious. Last Monday, the U.N.'s World Food Programme speculated that hundreds of Burmese fishermen had probably been killed by the waves, and that 30,000 people had likely been left homeless. Yet as the week wore on and the official death toll held, a startling fact emerged: the Burmese government actually seemed to be telling the truth...
...wooden door, she washed up on a Car Nicobar beach that was swarming with snakes. Newspapers wrote of refugees in Great Nicobar fending off crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks, "When the government can help other countries, why are they letting us down?" Says fellow survivor Aslam Majid, 22, who went five days without water: "People aren't dying from the tsunami. They're dying of thirst and hunger...