Since last fall, three traumatic stress support groups have begun at the center for the older vets.

Silla's an old vet to this kind of thing.

Not wanting a confrontation with these old vets, he resigned as commandant in 1921, vowing to return.

They recognized one another, the smart young black cop and the old vet who had a strong streak of bigotry in his makeup.

Ah, he wouldn't try and cheat an old vet.

We escorted him up onto the platform and Toot turned around on his own - the old vet in action.

I asked for the old vet's phone number and address, and the man said he didn't have it but would get it to me.

The older vets like to see the legs.

Not a big one on the vast, impersonal scale the old vet described.

"If someone is willing to steal from a sick old vet, I would like to think my government would help."