Residents in Troy, Illinois, raised more than $500 on Facebook to get a homeless veteran on a bus to New York — all within hours.
Michelle Noyes saw what she thought was a large bag of trash as she and her family were driving, but then realized it may have been a sleeping bag. She told her husband to turn the car around.
Sure enough it was a person, Marine veteran William Bozman, huddled in a sleeping bag to avoid the record-breaking cold.
“It made me feel awful, thinking about someone out in the cold like that,” Noyes told BND.com. “His face was so, so red from the cold … when he took his head out of the sleeping…
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