Vanessa Gamboa, an Iraq war veteran of the U.S Army and single mother, holds up her new U.S. Citizenship documents after being sworn in as a U.S. Citizen in downtown Brooklyn, New York, May 19, 2006. The 24-year-old single mother originally from Guatamala who was discharged in April, after her second tour in Iraq, returned to New York, had little money, no place to live, and became homeless. Gamboa is part of a small but growing trend among U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- homelessness. On any given night there are 200 to 250 of them in America, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) says. They are among nearly 200,000 homeless U.S. veterans, largely from the Vietnam War.
REUTERS/Mike Segar
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