My wife and I don't get to Baltimore often but we recently drove into the city for an Orioles game. Near the Russell Street exit from I-95 we noticed a permanent camp of homeless people with their tents and cardboard boxes under the bridge there.
I'm sure this is an everyday sight for commuters coming into downtown Baltimore but it was new since our last visit and it startled us.
We certainly have homeless people in Frederick City and in Frederick County, too. But it struck us that in the richest country in the history of the world Americans consider such sights, and the circumstances that create homelessness, not only commonplace but acceptable.
Don DeArmon, Frederick