Former Philadelphia Homeless Marine Working to Rescue Fellow Vets

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – When Kermit Putman was 20, he went from hanging on a North Philly street corner to serving as a U.S. Marine in Panama before and during the 1989 Operation Just Cause invasion that captured the notorious drug-dealing President Manuel Noriega. \”I got my first kill in Panama in 1987,\” Putman said. \”We were…

 

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