Illinois Community Raises $500 In Hours To Send Homeless Veteran To Stay With A Friend In New York

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