The Civil War ended 157 years ago, but believe it or not, the U.S government was still paying survivor benefits to the daughter of a Civil War veteran into 2020!
When I was a young girl there was a man who used to sit on the stone wall outside my church and feed the pigeons with scraps of stale bread given to him by a local store. His name slips my memory, but he was a vet. And he was homeless.