Street Persons Who Are They?

By Paul Heard

This book is titled Street Persons Who are they? Because we as a society tend to label them as a group,never as a individual. Only until you realize how they got to in that particular situation can one truly understand how they reached that point.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477136355

Paul Heard

Paul Heard born April 23 1935 Graduated 1953 from Paul lawrence Lawrence Dunbar High School Dayton Ohio. Joined the U.S.Navy Oct. 1953 Traveled the world before the age of21 Joined the Air Force in April 1963 Honorable Discharged from both services All the events accured in Columbus Ohio. Open Shelter and other facilities The names of the people are changed to protect their identities All of events are true facts

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This book is dedicated to the two most wonderful people man or woman I could ever have the privilege to meet. Ms. Betty McCurdy and Mr. Ron Braxton. They would constantly remind me of the person I could be rather than what I perceived I was. Always pointing out different options I should take, never fussing or belittling me. I realized after a series of blunders I understood what they were trying to get me to see. For these two truly humanitarians I owe my return to being a productive person. It can truly be said it was a act of GOD placing them in my life at a time I truly needed it.

It is the hope of this author that all reading this book will finish with a new concept on life and some of the people in it. Each of us can lend a helping hand to change the outlook for the less fortunate.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, who or what is a street person? You are now about to read of the street people, who are they, where do they come from and how they got there and where are they going from here?

If what you are about to read strikes a nerve, or makes you feel uneasy, great. It is a known fact that the truth hurts. This is meant to hopefully jar society back to reality, the reality that we are human beings and should not be scared, no matter what status in life we may abide.

This may be a subject the average individual would rather not discuss, or even think of, much the same as the subject of mental disorders, alcoholism, and incest were avoided in everyday conversation in the past. Was it because people were afraid of the answers that may have been realized as the end result, or was it because someone they know, such as a relative, may be a street person? This person may also be the so called Black sheep or the skeleton in the closet. Let’s now take a good long realistic, plain old, down to earth, soul searching look at the most often joked about, scoffed at, and hushed subject of the present and past, the street people.

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Since the beginning of time there were street people. As we look down through history, there have been street people bearing many different titles such as, gypsies, bums, hobo’s and tramps. Now we have the terminology, street people.

Understanding what constitutes being a street person is rather hard to do. Only by surrounding yourself in that particular environment can