Goodwill program helps Marine veteran rise from homelessness

Goodwill program helps Savannah Marine veteran rise from homelessness
Posted: July 8, 2012
By Corey Dickstein
Things kept getting worse for Royce Brown.

The plumbing job he’d held for more than 15 years had slowly become less steady. By the time the company he was working for went defunct toward the end of 2010, the then-45-year-old couldn’t afford to pay his rent.

He lost his home. Within a month he’d lost everything.

Brown placed blame on anything he could.

“I blamed the economy, I blamed the president, I blamed from top to bottom, you know,” he said. “I blamed everything. What can you do? What can you do? There’s no more work out there. No work. Nobody needs a plumber.”

For more than a year, the U.S. Marine Corps veteran lived on the streets. He slept on friends’ couches when he could; other nights he just walked. Often he meandered from one side of Savannah to the other just to kill time. Just to stay alive.
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