From $125,000 a Year to Homeless

by Mark Horvath · 2010-11-03 08:00:00 UTC
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I met Terry on a rainy day in Nashville. He told me he once owned a landscaping business and made over $125,000 a year. But then he went through a horrible divorce.

You can tell by the character of his face that Terry has been on the streets for some time. After getting out of the Marines after three trips to Vietnam he started to travel. He says traveling gets into your blood. He has now survived 33 years of homelessness.

You may see an old man that has probably had too much to drink. What I see is a kind Vietnam vet doing the best he can to forget the madness of his past life and present situation.

Mark Horvath is an activist for the homeless. He vlogs at invisiblepeople.tv and blogs at hardlynormal.com. He was formerly homeless in Hollywood.
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