Patrolling for veterans in need

Journal Sentinel

Greg Carter grabbed plastic bags filled with sandwiches from the back of his SUV, pulled his hood up against the steady biting rain that would harden into snow within hours and walked into the darkness. His flashlight's beam bounced against piles of garbage, empty beer cans, an overturned shopping cart, a broken folding chair. It was 4 a.m. on Milwaukee's south side. Four or five mornings each week, Carter travels city streets searching for homeless veterans. He knows where they hang out. He knows their habits. He knows how they end up on the street. Because Carter used to be one of them. In Milwaukee on any given night, roughly one in four homeless people is a veteran, more than double the national average of homeless veterans.

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