Ten Years ago, to weeks after
I moved home to Cimarron KS., a small farming town,my Father and I were going
to the store. As we went past main
street, Dad and I saw a dirty, bearded man at the corner holding a sign: “will
work for food”. I think Dad helped him
because Dade felt more sorry for me for just getting kicked ort of the rescue
mission where I worked. Dad took him to
a restaurant, with me in tow. Dad
didn’t want me to talk so I did my best.
Dad asked him if he had any Family, the homeless man said “No” and dad
believed him…but I didn’t. After we
ate, Dad took him to the hotel and put him up for the night. As Dad wad driving me home he said: “David,
I have a appointment to go to, while I gone, Just stay Home, do NOT go to the
hotel to bother him. I promised, but I
lied. Right after Dad left I went back
to the hotel. I found him drinking, and
I gave the homeless man a choice… either he tell me where his Family is or I
will call Sheriff Krammer. He finally
did tell me where his brother was, so I told him to come with me to the house
so we could call his brother.
One year later I was working
as a flagman on highway 50. As I was
holding up a line of cars and trucks for the pilot car, a truck driver got out
of his semi and walked tword me. (I
found out later he looked so stern because the wind was in his eye’s) He came right up on me and took my sholder
and said… “David, thank you for getting in my face, it changed my life!” …the
weird part of this whole story is his family did it all, I just let a horse to
water.
The first week on March of
2003, I went under the KS. Ave. Bridge
in Topeka KS and found a guy by the name of Clinton Cadwallader hanging out
under it. I asked him why he wasn’t
with his family and he said he had just gotten out of prisonand lost contact
with his family – FOR NINE YEARS! We went
to the library to look up his last known relative. He found his Aunt in Houston TX. and called her. After some tears, she promptly called her
sister (Clinton’s Mother) and the next week his Mother and Father drove from
Houston to Topeka to take him…Home.
Would you like to talk to him and his family? His phone # is 1 (832) 326-7714 or 1 (832) 563-3880.
You can help the homeless
too…by acting as a third party between him and his Family, and send
him…Home. Please – could YOU support
and promote the idea of Family as a resource for those who are Presently
homeless? You could change someone’s
life so very fast by letting him use your phone and encouraging him to ask his
family for help and shelter. Thank you
for helping the homeless come Home