Veteran Brian Taylor is not just home for the holidays — he’s living in a home, which was not the case just last month.
The accomplishment took grit and determination, as he walked 30 miles across southern Georgia in September. He’s now employed and has a roof over his head in the city of Thomasville.
“I’m very grateful,” Brian Taylor, a U.S. Army veteran, told Fox News Digital.
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“Those hopes and dreams, when you’ve lived without them for so long — sometimes you just don’t know what you want,” he said.
But “my faith has always been there,” he added. “God understands it. We talk a lot.”
Marge Shaw, career guidance counselor at the Goodwill Community Center in Thomasville, was there the day Taylor arrived.
“He was so beaten down and exhausted when he first came here,” Shaw told Fox News Digital.
“But we just poured lots of positivity and encouragement into him and kept connecting him with community resources. We were not going to let him give up.”
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Taylor left the Army in 1983. He’s faced personal challenges, he said, including losing his mother and the relationships he had with his wife and children due to choices he made involving alcohol.
Taylor said he lost his way and bounced around the country. But he always managed to find work — whether at a paint and body shop, campground or convenience store.
“I just drifted off,” he said. “My life was in turmoil.”
He’s never felt like he deserved to use his veteran’s…
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