Danny Brumfield: Vietnam Vet lived on streets for 27 years
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Danny Brumfield, a Marine Corps veteran of the war in Vietnam, an office assistant and security guard who had been homeless, unemployed and living on the streets since 1992, has died an Alexandria, Virginia, hospital. He was 67.
For 21 years after Brumfield left home in Gaithersburg, Maryland, his wife and two children had no idea of his whereabouts. They hired private detectives. No results.
His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brumfield, 14 when he left home, tried Ancestry.com, the online genealogical research service, hoping to find distant relatives who might shed light on what had happened to her father. Nothing there either.
In 2013, unbeknown to Brumfield’s family, the city of Alexandria was doing a count of its homeless population. A social worker persuaded Mr. Brumfield to reveal his name, and an online search yielded the information that someone had been looking for a man of that name. That someone was Mary Elizabeth Brumfield. The social worker in Alexandria called and told her that her father had been found.
But she still had to locate Mr. Brumfield, who had no fixed address. She learned that he frequented a Dunkin’ Donuts on Route 1 .
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