Caleb Harris served in the US Forces, and was going to college and working when COVID-19 hit.
His courses went online, but he did not have a laptop, so he lost the GI Bill money he was getting to go to school, which was also helping out with
expenses.
Then he found out his wife was pregnant with their first baby. At least the furniture moving company he was working with kept the 28-year-old employed, but the money just wasn’t enough.
They started living out of their cars. He had applied for Section 8 housing, and any veterans program he could think of, but the days, then weeks passed on.
He sent his wife with family in San Francisco for a while, but she eventually returned to be with him, thinking they were about to get help and she had time.
She started feeling contractions at 2 in the morning, on a weekend, halfway through the 8th month. By the time she woke Caleb up, her water broke and the placenta was out. Paramedics were on the phone with the father, who was holding the baby’s head as he describes it “a little arm reached out, and this tiny hand hung on to mine and before I knew it, he pulled himself out”.
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