My name is Ronald Moore. I am 75 years old, and a permanently disabled Vietnam Veteran. My wife Nancy is 70 and disabled with pancreatitis. After her Whipple surgery, some 9 years ago, we were invited to move in with a friend in California.

I had known this man for 20 years, we were very good friends, or so I thought. We moved with the promise that he would help me and my wife and we could retire in comfort. His intentions weren't pure and my wife and I found ourselves homeless after 8 months.

We struggled for a while but then I was awarded my disability and things started looking up. Then COVID hit and it changed our world as it did everyone. My wife has since fallen and had a hip replacement and I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Our health has taken a hit and I am not the man I once was. We need to be home where we have family and friends to help us.

My daughter has found us a home, and with my disability we can eventually buy it, however the problem, is getting home. There is a window for the month of August but we need to be back by then or the house will go up on the market. The house is next door to my friend who was my best man at our wedding, and minutes from my daughter and family. We have tried to save but there's always something, and now U-haul has raised the rates $1400.00 from last month. It's always out of reach. I love California. but we need to be home.

U-haul rental $5300.00

Gas food and lodging $1000.00

Car transport $1000.00

These are my great grandsons. Malachi and Kendrick. Malachi is two years old and I have yet to hold him in my arms. I need to be with my great grandbabies.

This is what it costs coming from Tell City Indiana, to Joshua Tree California.

This is the same truck going from Joshua Tree California to TellCity Indiana.

Thank you to those who have donated so far. With your generosity we have covered sending the car back. Now I just have to work on the moving truck, and gas.

We weren't able to raise the money we needed for this month, so we've set a new date for Labor Day. The owner has agreed to hold the house another month.