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My name is Bradley Clayton Kellum and I have had a really bad year. I have never done anything like this in my life. I just dont know what to do. So I know if you Google my name which most of you will, the article that comes up is a half truth. Ok so this is my story. I was a Non-Destructive Testing inspector for about 18 years. I am 39 yrs old now with a birthday in January. I used to work at this place in Radford, VA called the Arsenal. I used to inspect rocket motors for the military. Well the buildings had a limit on how many pounds of explosives were allowed inside. A new supervisor keep overloading the buildings so i finally went off on him for endangering our lives. I was not nice at all. I said some really mean words. I mean its not like it could explode or anything. well he told the army commander in charge of the installation that i threatened to shot up the place. Yeah a military army base. this is no joke. well i got surrounded by MP's one night coming in. got taken to the fire department and then let go pending an investigation. i was scared like never before in my life. Well about a week later i got a call from some federal legal department saying that i need to get a lawyer that i was going to be facing domestic terrorism charges. Ok so i dont even own any guns let alone never said that. even some of the people that worked with me were very confused. so after that call i lost it. i got fired and then decided to kill myself. so i started drinking every day. pushed my girlfriend and mother and father out of my life. i was so afraid of what i was facing. i killed myself on 03/27/2019 with and overdose of pills. i was on life support for a few days. when they brought me back the girl i was seeing at the time told me she was leaving me while i was in the hospital recovering from being dead. please dont think i am mad at her. i put her through alot in my temporary insanity. then i went to a mental hospital for a little while. she took everything when she left. so when i got out and back home i kept drinking planning to finish my self off. well in an drunken accident i got my apartment on fire. thankfully it wasnt to bad because a family lived next to me. it could have been alot worse. i screwed up. well i got arrested. i waited on the cops because i woke up to my apartment on fire. i was in just boxers and a t-shirt.  spent 04/11/2019 to 11/17/2019 in New River Valley Regional Jail. My step-dad passed away while i was in there. they didnt tell me i had to find out 20 days after he passed away. my mother called up there every day for a few weeks and they never told me. by the time i found out he was already cremated. My mother broke down and moved to Louisiana somewhere with her brother. So when i got release they just dropped me off at the local sheriffs office with only long john bottoms, top  and a t-shirt on. i walked all night thinking i just go back to jail.  I have no family no friends what am i going to do. Also if i violate my parole just one time i get life in prison because the judge thought he should make an example of me. so i found this program called To Our House that gives me a bed to sleep in from 6pm to 6:30am. They feed us and give us a bag lunch. we sleep on cots in churches that host us. there are 14 of us men and women. We go to a different church every week. I got a job a week ago on  12/09/2019 at Wendy's. i have to take the bus to work and walk to where ever we are after work. on the weekends i have to walk both ways. this week it takes about 2 hrs one way. last week it was only 1hr 20 mins. i am not sure how long it will take next week. also the program is over on 03/27/2019.  I get to the church about 1am and have to be up at 6am. i never get any sleep. always having to find a warm place to go to but i cant stay to long or someone might call the cops on me for vagrancy. one arrest and life in prison. i am in the Christiansburg, Blacksburg, VA area its fixing to get real cold. I need help getting a place and a cheap car. please if you can anything can help. i walk with shame of my situation constantly. i dont know what to do. i have a job i work almost every day. i make $9/hr. i have court fees to pay as well. everything i own fits in one regular backpack. i have two pairs of shoes two pants and two shirts. some weeks i get to take a shower every night mostly i dont. or do my clothes. i am at my wits end. please understand i know what i did to get myself here but also i never thought this would happen to me. like so many others. i get bag lunches from the churches that host us i give them to other homeless people that have no program. there are many of us out here. i am starting school this summer i am going to major in psychology and human services because i want to build a permanent homeless shelter for the local people. because now that i am one i see it every where. i have to help. some people are not as fortunate as i am at the moment. plus the stigma of being homeless and add mental health issues on top of that and your screwed. also the sooner i get a place the sooner someone else can take my place in the program. its fixing to get dangerously cold here. please dont misunderstand me i am not complaining about my situation considering everything it could be alot worse. i could still be locked up or have committed suicide like i struggle with every day. but with help from some friends on twitter that is getting easier every day. plus the acceptance of my situation and knowing i am doing everything i can possibly do. once again if you can help thank you so much. if you just read this i hope it helps you in some way. we have to help one another in this life. that is something i have learned like no other thing recently.

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Bradley Kellum
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Christiansburg, VA

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