http://www.military.com/daily-news/...s-lifelong-home.html?comp=700001076338&rank=4
Many people wanted Johnnie H. Hodges, a 90-year-old Navy veteran of World War II, to keep living in the place he has called home for the last 60 years.
But lending Hodges a hand wasn't easy, and he didn't accept offers for help. Time quickly ran out.
On Thursday morning, Hodges was taken from his Humboldt Parkway residence in Buffalo on a stretcher after an almost two-hour standoff that began when a U.S. marshal and Buffalo police showed up to evict him. He was transported for mental health evaluation by VA Western New York Health Care System.
Though he walked onto the front porch under his own power, an ambulance crew and police lifted him from a porch chair to the stretcher to be taken away.
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Normally the banks are the villain of this sort of piece, but it sounds like they were bending over backward to help out in this case. Having pride is one thing, but there comes a time when it must be swallowed. A real shame all around.
Many people wanted Johnnie H. Hodges, a 90-year-old Navy veteran of World War II, to keep living in the place he has called home for the last 60 years.
But lending Hodges a hand wasn't easy, and he didn't accept offers for help. Time quickly ran out.
On Thursday morning, Hodges was taken from his Humboldt Parkway residence in Buffalo on a stretcher after an almost two-hour standoff that began when a U.S. marshal and Buffalo police showed up to evict him. He was transported for mental health evaluation by VA Western New York Health Care System.
Though he walked onto the front porch under his own power, an ambulance crew and police lifted him from a porch chair to the stretcher to be taken away.
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Normally the banks are the villain of this sort of piece, but it sounds like they were bending over backward to help out in this case. Having pride is one thing, but there comes a time when it must be swallowed. A real shame all around.
