Vietnam Homeless Hero

"...THEN got to spend an hour or so wandering churchyards and taking photographs, when I ran into my friend Corporal Benny Nathaniel! I've posted portraits of him before. Benny, originally from Baltimore, mustered out of the Viet Nam war, the only survivor of his unit, in 1967. He's lived on the streets of Beaufort ever since, he just turned 74. Good man, who has made the best of tough circumstances. You'll note his VA ID is a bit more worn than mine."

I want to get down to Beaufort to interview this man for the Veterans History Project for the Library of Congress. Thanks Theda Parks

James R. Taylor

July 19 at 11:13pm · Bluffton · 

 

Had a meeting in Beaufort today with their interfaith council, spent a couple of hours with various ministers, Rabbis, the honorable mayor Billy Keyserling, chief of Police, lots of good people. Then dinner on the river side of Bay street with my friend Dimitri Chernywho is running for Congress in the first district, THEN got to spend an hour or so wandering churchyards and taking photographs, when I ran into my friend Corporal Benny Nathaniel! I've posted portraits of him before. Benny, originally from Baltimore, mustered out of the Viet Nam war, the only survivor of his unit, in 1967. He's lived on the streets of Beaufort ever since, he just turned 74. Good man, who has made the best of tough circumstances. You'll note his VA ID is a bit more worn than mine