We also ran into Woody last night. He has been in and out of the hospital for about 5 weeks now. Kenne found him behind the gas station 5 weeks ago unconscious and bloody. Kenne said it looked like someone had beat him to death, so he drug him to the pay phone and called 911. Woody had a broken leg, fractured hip, and his ribs are broken. After seeing and talking to him last night I am pretty sure he also has some sort of a brain injury. He does not remember what happened but thinks that he was hit by a car. He can hardly walk and is not himself. It is sad to think that someone could do that to somebody and then just leave them there. He is somebody's dad and he is a good friend to a lot of people. Just because he is homeless does not mean that he does not have people that care about him. This just makes me want to work even harder to track down his daughter.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Eye Opener
We went out last night to help Kenne set up a tent that we gave him because his other one was stolen and he had been unable to figure the new one out. It had been raining all week and he had been trying to get it up for some cover and it was not working. While Josh was back in the woods helping him he stumbled across a couple that is living in the same area. We had never come in contact with them before so Josh went over to talk to them. He found out that the man and his wife had become homeless due to the oil spill. The man was a professional fisherman who had owned his own boat. He made his living fishing in the Gulf until what he was fishing for became contaminated. Lack of income caused him to lose his boat. He was without work and now homeless. His wife is disabled so he took the money that he did have and got them to Jacksonville so that she could get the medical care that she needed. They are now living in the woods in a tent with the only belongings that they have in a backpack. We hear about the oil spill continuously on the news but it seems so far away.
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