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[wa3zrm]

From the Pentagon to life in a van

After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:

Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?

Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."

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[DanF]

From the Pentagon to life in a van

After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:

Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?

Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.philly.com ...


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I read his story but something tells me that a piece of it was left out.

That piece may be the one needed to complete this puzzle.

Dan

[truthwolf1]

Most people in todays economy are a pink slip away from a future of minimum wage.

[wa3zrm]

If he is a 30 year veteran then he has a pension. Where is that money going and what is it used for??? Here's the real story:

He receives an annual pension from the military of more than $40,000. His struggle to find a job after retiring from the Air Force collided with the end of his marriage nearly two years ago. Unable to return to the home he shared with his estranged wife, and faced with expenses including bills for two sons in college and debts that mounted when he maintained a nicer lifestyle, he took up a nomadic existence.

His real issue is that he got taken to the cleaners in his divorce, and his money goes to keep his two kids in expensive private schools. It's got little to do with the military, and much to do with the divorce industry.

[DanF]

If he is a 30 year veteran then he has a pension. Where is that money going and what is it used for??? Here's the real story:

He receives an annual pension from the military of more than $40,000. His struggle to find a job after retiring from the Air Force collided with the end of his marriage nearly two years ago. Unable to return to the home he shared with his estranged wife, and faced with expenses including bills for two sons in college and debts that mounted when he maintained a nicer lifestyle, he took up a nomadic existence.

His real issue is that he got taken to the cleaners in his divorce, and his money goes to keep his two kids in expensive private schools. It's got little to do with the military, and much to do with the divorce industry.

The pieces of this puzzle slowly come together.

But there is still one more piece to this real story of a true American who did his time for his country.

A Navy Seal might be able to put this last piece into place.

But I will always believe that until you walk in another man's shoes you will never be able to know who he is.

Dan

[sirloot]

But I will always believe that until you walk in another man's shoes you will never be able to know who he is.
Dan

nor have his shoes