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Jan. 1, 2012

Harkening to the Homeless

Helping homeless vets

Addled by brain traumas or post-traumatic stress, veterans returning from tours of duty often cannot reclaim the lives they'd left. Many become chronically homeless.

A long-ago bequest was intended to prevent some of this hardship. In 1888, U.S. Senator John P. Jones and Arcadia B. de Baker donated more than 300 acres of land in Los Angeles to the federal government, earmarking it for permanent housing for disabled war veterans. For nearly 80 years, the Pacific Branch Soldie...

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