Anderson hears calling to help homeless vets

Anderson hears calling to help homeless vets
By Alexa Hinton


Janet Robinson has no feeling in her fingers. And, when she holds out her hands, her thick, weathered fingers fall into a limp, gnarled curl.

It's one of the many indelible marks scarring the woman after she lived two years homeless on the streets of Nashville. It happened when, while shuffling along Murfreesboro Road, Robinson was pushed viciously by muggers and fell to her hands. The force when she struck the ground was too much for fingers weakened by seasons of cold temperatures and little protection, and she never regained sensation.

“They got my purse, but wasn’t nothing in it,” Robinson said.

Though her bag was empty, the 50-year-old Texas native says she had once considered her life full. Robinson served three years in the Army as a combat medic and hearing technician. She worked many years as a home health care nurse. She raised two boys, Jesse, now 20, and Josh, now 24.

“I wouldn’t ever have dreamed I’d become homeless. Heck, I used to make good money,” Robinson said.
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