http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp

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"A few weeks ago, a new one made it to air: "Support for NPR comes from the estate of Richard Leroy Walters, whose life was enriched by NPR, and whose bequest seeks to encourage others to discover public radio."

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"An article in the online newsletter of a Catholic mission in Phoenix revealed that Walters died two years ago at the age of 76. He left an estate worth about $4 million. Along with the money he left for NPR, Walters also left money for the mission. But something distinguished Walters from any number of solvent, well-to-do Americans with seven-figure estates: He was homeless. "

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"When Walters retired, he evidently retired from the world of material comforts. He didn't have a car. "He just gave up all of the material things that we think we have to have," Belle says. "You know, I don't know how we gauge happiness. What's happy for you might not be happy for me. I never heard him complain." Evidently, among his few possessions was a radio. Hence those announcements listeners hear now and again on NPR stations."

7/30/2009 3:36:47 PM

cool.

7/30/2009 3:39:35 PM

cool.

7/30/2009 3:44:42 PM

I guess this is another anecdote indicating that people are homeless because they want to be.

7/30/2009 3:53:17 PM

meh.

7/30/2009 3:57:04 PM

lesser-funded Lovell

7/30/2009 4:24:22 PM

i'm sure he paid enough in taxes over the years if he had a $4 million estate


he deserved to benefit from those tax dollars for a little while

7/30/2009 4:47:05 PM