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Originally Posted by mgjim
You may not like this but I disagree. Many of us have had to overcome difficult circumstances but we still paid our obligations.
I worked my way through my first couple of years of college. When the money ran out, I had to leave school and I was promptly drafted. I served my time and then spent another 20+ years in the Army. During that time, I finished my education and when I retired, I was able to find a decent job. I even started my own business.
Two years after I opened my business, my wife became very ill and required an organ transplant. During the next couple of years, I spent most of my time and resources into getting her back to good health. Eventually I lost my business and, after a second transplant, I lost my wife. Through it all, I was able to meet my financial obligations.
Both of my sons have completed their education and their military service in the Army. Neither of them will have outstanding student loans and they will both be contributors to the common good as they move forward.
After paying for my education and for my wife's medical bills, I now live alone in a one bedroom apartment. I wish I could afford to live in The Villages, but I cannot. If my financial situation improves, I may be able to make that move some day.
I still contend that any senior citizen who still has unpaid student loans should be ashamed.
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That's a very commendable story. Because of my fight with the 224 613 Project without the help of my extended family and it looks like many others I would have been homeless. Not because I did anything wrong, just basically told the truth about a problem that I still see in the delivery of practical information to survivors/victims of crimes. I got 24 nominations to Marquis Who's Who publications from 1992 through 2002 mainly because of a hobby I refused to give up on.
I even got a lot of help from some agencies in Minnesota as well as some people at the University of Minnesota with this 224 613 Project who are even helping me now in some way.