By Lindsey Anderson
Different stumbling blocks sent the three veterans on a downward spiral toward homelessness â separation, addiction and unemployment â but now they are on a path to regain their footing with the help of a Veterans Affairs program.
The three men â Curtis Jackson, 56; Eduardo Rocha, 55; and Francisco Zappas, 62 â were part of the first graduating class of an apprenticeship program that trains mostly formerly homeless veterans to work in national cemeteries across the country.
Nearly two years after graduation, the men are full-time caretakers at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, tenderly caring for the final resting places of more than 50,000 men and women â veterans like themselves.
“This is an opportunity to get your life back together,” Jackson said, sitting in a conference 
room at the cemetery. People often focus on the negatives, he said. “We’re the positive.”
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