By Steve Israel
He served his country as a soldier for more than half of his 67 years. He enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War in part because he hated those “commie-loving draft dodgers.”
After a stint in the National Guard, he enlisted in the Navy. In 1983, he served as a cook on the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, when 241 Marines were killed in Lebanon. Since then, he’s served in the Navy Reserve.
Today, after moving out of his brother’s senior citizen apartment in November because of lease stipulations, Barry 
Long is living in the only place he says he can afford on his $723 per month Social Security check and $5,100 annual Navy pension: a 2003 Dodge Ventura van.
It’s parked next to a trash bin behind a bar owned by a former Marine, the Venture Inn in Port Jervis.
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