This man not only played a role in my life as my father-figure, but he also played a role in changing the course of the history of the United States Navy.
A new Netflix documentary, "Father Soldier Son", was recently released, following a Purple Heart Veteran living in central New York.
I missed this somehow on the release date (July 17th), but caught a post about the Netflix feature on newyorkupstate...
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.