Vietnam Veteran Leaves Legacy to Homeless and More

Dying Veteran Gives Away All His Possessions, Wills Retirement Fund to Alma Mater (VIDEO)
BY ALEX HEIGL
02/08/2015

"I've had a good life, so I can't complain at all," Bob Karlstrand tells Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE 11.

Karlstrand's positive attitude comes in spite of his circumstance: The 65-year-old Vietnam War veteran has battled colon cancer and is currently facing a terminal lung disease.

An only child who never married and never had children, Karlstrand is preparing for the end of his life with a remarkable gesture: He's willing his Maple Grove, Minnesota, home of 38 years to Habitat for Humanity, with the only stipulation being that it has to go to a veteran.

Karlstrand has been giving his things away for some time. Most of his appliances and furnishings are gone, right down to his living room carpet. "Most of the things I can remember having," he said.

"Maybe some pictures I'll keep but in the end it's only material things."
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