Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
Though John Beal was able to make it home to his family after the Vietnam war, he was still in dire straits – not because of the gunfire, but because of his health.
After settling in with his family in Seattle, Washington, the veteran suffered three heart attacks within a year of returning from the war.
At the VA hospital, he was not only told that he had PTSD, but the doctor said that he only had about four more months to live – so the doctor recommended that he “get a hobby”.
As a means of clearing his head, Beal walked to Hamm Creek to contemplate his future. Though he was being faced with an immediate death, he took particular notice of how polluted the waterway was. The yellowed water, which had been sullied by a nearby sewage plant, was filled with broken cars, dead fish, and rotting debris. Local children would caution people to avoid getting into the water, otherwise they might emerge from the creek covered in rashes.
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