As I approached the stop at an exit near a truck stop, I see a young man holding up a sign
Which Reads:
USMC Veteran
Need $$$ for ticket home
So I study the guy.
1. He is clean and recently shaven
2. Has gay-boy sneakers, not something a Marine would wear.
3. He as a cammo pack, a small one...in ARMY COLORS!
What Marine who you have ever seen would ever wear anything Army????
4. The ruck sack is very new looking and says US Army Reserve!
5. He has a small sleeping bag rolled up attached to the bottom of the ruck
It is like one of those $15 ones you got for your niece.
6. As I roll up, I stare straight at him, like I'm boring a hole in him, and he looks away and walks away...Marine???
Hardly, and I am getting dammed sick of these losers begging and now using an honorable group to pray in our sympathies. I see real desperation in the eyes of the homeless in Cincinnati, and there is a definite difference between them and these liars.
OK, done venting...
Hell, had he been a real Marine, I would have taken him to eat, allowed him to shower, taken him to the bus station and bought his ticket home.