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THIS is the heartbreaking moment an British ex-soldier living on the streets breaks down and sobs as he calls for help.
Steve Rowe, a Northern Ireland veteran, accused the government of “forgetting their own” as he told his story of sleeping rough in central London.
Steve, who ended up on the streets after the trauma of his son's death, said MPs are too focused on Brexit to care about the thousands of rough sleepers in Britain.
He told Channel 4 News: “I’m asking for help. I’m not getting it. So what do I do? Where do I go?
“I lost a son, which just… hit me. You can take a bullet for the Queen, you can die for the country but I couldn’t save my son.
“There are so many ex-forces guys on the streets who are going through the same thing.
“What they have done, the country, have forgotten their own.
“The government are more concerned about this Europe business and this Brexit business than they are their own people.
“And here we are sleeping tents and sleeping in boxes.”
According to figures released earlier this year, around 13,000 ex-armed forces veterans are sleeping rough.
Some of the vets end up on the streets after finding the pressure of civilian life hard to acclimatise to or struggle with mental illness, including PTSD.
Steve said: “I’m [sleeping] in a box. I’ve asked for help – so why won’t they give it to me?
“They trained us well, right? We can survive anything. But what we can’t survive is confusion and we can’t survive rejection and we can’t survive loneliness.
“Please just give me a bed.”
Steve Rowe, a Northern Ireland veteran, accused the government of “forgetting their own” as he told his story of sleeping rough in central London.
Steve, who ended up on the streets after the trauma of his son's death, said MPs are too focused on Brexit to care about the thousands of rough sleepers in Britain.
He told Channel 4 News: “I’m asking for help. I’m not getting it. So what do I do? Where do I go?
“I lost a son, which just… hit me. You can take a bullet for the Queen, you can die for the country but I couldn’t save my son.
“There are so many ex-forces guys on the streets who are going through the same thing.
“What they have done, the country, have forgotten their own.
“The government are more concerned about this Europe business and this Brexit business than they are their own people.
“And here we are sleeping tents and sleeping in boxes.”
According to figures released earlier this year, around 13,000 ex-armed forces veterans are sleeping rough.
Some of the vets end up on the streets after finding the pressure of civilian life hard to acclimatise to or struggle with mental illness, including PTSD.
Steve said: “I’m [sleeping] in a box. I’ve asked for help – so why won’t they give it to me?
“They trained us well, right? We can survive anything. But what we can’t survive is confusion and we can’t survive rejection and we can’t survive loneliness.
“Please just give me a bed.”