Paltalk News - Using Music To Help Veterans

RED BANK, NJ - One in three or one in four homeless people in the United States, depending on whose figures one cites is a veteran.




While the government has programs designed to help them, many men and women returning to civilian life find it difficult finding and accessing services.




A number of organizations have been established to help them through their problems. Among them, VetWork, located in New Jersey.




New Jersey also has a very vibrant music scene and community. Two musicians, the lead singers of the band Goldenseal, have made it their mission to use their music to raise money to help VetWork help veterans.




They are donating proceeds from their CD, which includes the great single, Streets Of America, a song written by Goldenseal's Joe Hughes, to VetWork.




Hughes and fellow Goldenseal musician Danny Rongo were my guests today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com. They performed Streets and two other songs live from the Downtown Cafe in Red Bank, NJ.




Hughes and Rongo were joined by VetWork President Joe Arata, who described the problems many veterans have transitioning back into civilian life.




Arata believes that those who join the armed services of the United States are bright and well trained. While in the military they must master sophisticated weaponry and are generally of good moral character. They are, Arata believes, well qualified for work in the civilian sector. They just, he says, need to be presented with opportunities.

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