In 25 years of interviewing the folks living on D.C. streets, in shelters and tents, it happens nearly every time. At least one in every group is a veteran.

“Right here ma’am,” said Charles Rivera, 59, when I walked up to a small crowd of men outside Central Union Mission, the shelter created after the Civil War to address our nation’s shameful and unrelenting crisis of veteran homelessness.

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