Yesterday, on Veteran's Day, a homeless veteran friend of the author passed away.

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I wrote about the passing of Tom Dalmer, an Air Force vet and a homeless friend of mine yesterday on my blog and for my DU journal. The whole story is at the link. I would like to add that yesterday many politicians released trite, emotive statements about the troops. Everybody professes their love for the troops, but how many truly care about a man like Tom and the countless others who literally live in the dirt. Who suffer and die in obscurity? I imagine very few. I hope that changes.  -Bill

A homeless friend of mine died this morning.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Wetzelbill/690

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Authors Bio:

Bill Wetzel is Amskapi Pikuni aka Blackfeet from Montana. His writing has appeared in the American Indian Culture & Research Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, Studies In Indian Literatures (SAIL), Hinchas de Poesia, Red Ink Magazine, Literary Orphans and various outlets. He is the founder of the Stjukshon Indigenous reading series at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, AZ. He is a 2018 Peripheral Poet Fellow, and twice a Lijang Studio Spring Festival Writer-in-Residence in Lijang, Yunnan, China. He is the 2022 MFA Author Awards winner. He currently lives and teaches in Shanghai, China.