A friend of mine passed along this article about our nation’s homeless veterans and an organization called Pathways to Housing which has been helping to provide housing options and treatment to homeless veterans. John O’Boyle, a Navy veteran, was homeless until just recently:

For 15 years, he was a nomad wandering the streets of his native New York before he got help from Pathways to Housing, a nonprofit organization.

O’Boyle spent two of his homeless years underground, riding the trains of the city’s subway system.

“I had nothing to do, so I rode the trains. I got to know the whole subway system like the back of my hand,” O’Boyle said. “The E train used to end…