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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
A homeless Fort Worth veteran who gave up his dog now has a new RV to live in.<\/p>\n
Community groups stepped in after his emotional story went viral.<\/p>\n
Tom Miner says he hopes to reunite with his dog Jake once he\u2019s settled.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – A Fort Worth veteran who was forced to give up his dog while experiencing homelessness now hopes to reunite with his pet after settling in a newly gifted RV.<\/p>\n
FOX 4 got the full tour on Thursday; Tom Miner is settling into his new place, and multiple times he said that he feels like he’s in heaven.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fort Worth veteran’s story<\/p>\n
For Miner, stepping into his new RV made him feel, in his own words, like, “Dorothy in the \u2018Wizard of Oz.\u2019”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Except there was no yellow brick road or ruby slippers on his journey home. Instead, there were long nights spent in a tent on the streets of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
He does have one thing in common with Dorothy though \u2014 a beloved dog, though his is named Jake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know anything was gonna come from my letter, or what I did,”\u00a0Miner said. “I just did what I did to save my life.”<\/p>\n
Forced to give up his dog<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, Miner made the difficult decision to leave jake outside Fort Worth Fire Station 8. The veteran wrote a heartbreaking letter that he could no longer care for Jake if he was going to get his life back on track.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That was the number one hardest thing that I ever had to do,” Miner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake is in good hands with the crew, and now Tom is getting a little help too.<\/p>\n
“The floodgates opened and all these beautiful people came into my life that I’d never had before.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth Fire Department’s homeless outreach programs and enforcement, or HOPE Team, is helping Tom with medical and dental appointments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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New RV for Tom Miner<\/p>\n
Operation Texas Strong, an organization that gives RVs to homeless veterans, was able to find him one from Bennett’s Camping Center, a family-owned business in Granbury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“It was heartwarming,” said Stacy Rist on behalf of the camping store. “It was really cool. Yeah, I’m so glad God allowed us to do that.”<\/p>\n
Tom gave FOX 4 a tour of his new home, complete with air conditioning, kitchen, bathroom, a couple of comfy recliners, and a bed.<\/p>\n
“Jake will have to pick his side,” Miner said. “Yeah. That’s just the way it works.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Tom isn’t one who seeks attention, and he did not expect his story to go viral. He’s truly humbled by the support.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“To me, no matter how hard the decision is, if you made the right one that it could change everything, and it did.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He does want to get Jake back at some point in the future once he’s settled in. For now, he’s soaking it in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s just overwhelming,” Miner said. “There ain’t no words, there ain’t no words.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Except maybe just five… There’s no place like home. Miner is overwhelmed by the support and extremely humbled. And most importantly, he can’t wait for Jake to see it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article comes from FOX 4 interviews with North Texas residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A homeless Fort Worth veteran who gave up his dog now has a new RV to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2526,116,118,117,110227],"class_list":["post-306876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dog","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tom-miner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}