Perth Now
Linda Cann
From: The Sunday Times
September 01, 2012
Greg Holmes' children and grandchildren: Michael Holmes, Brett Holmes, Justin Holmes, Chelcie Taylor, Sascha Taylor, Kaylene Taylor, Alexia Taylor, Emiliya Taylor, wife Margreta Holmes, Leanne Pauls , Ashleigh Pauls, Christopher Pauls and Anne Holmes. Picture: Theo Fakos Source: PerthNow
THIS is the photo that a Perth family hopes will bring their dad back home.
Vietnam veteran Greg Holmes disappeared from his Balga house in 1998 after armed robbers threatened his life with knives and guns in the family newsagency twice in a year.
Police located him two years after his disappearance in the eastern states, but he did not want to make contact with his wife or three children then.
His family believe he snapped after the trauma of the Vietnam War followed by life-threatening burglaries pushed him to run from his fears rather than accept counselling.
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To readers in Australia if you can help this family find Greg, please do it.
This is my father <3 Thank you for spreading the word <3
ReplyDeleteI hope you hear something soon. Stranger things have happened.
ReplyDeleteWhile I hope you have a happy ending to this story, there was a homeless Vietnam veteran who passed away a couple of years ago here in the Orlando area. I posted about him and how he spent the last part of his life, surrounded by the love of a church that took him in. Anyway, in Iraq, a Marine was searching for his father and found the post. He found out his father was loved and ended up finding his brothers and sisters that he didn't even know he had.