When a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps found himself homeless and the victim of a pickpocket late last August, a local restaurant owner, an optometrist and a Eugene police officer came together to help. The veteran, Dean Grotzky, 53, had been living on the streets of Eugene since March 2016 after losing his job as a commercial truck driver. Grotzky said he suffers from fibromyalgia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis and post-traumatic stress disorder. The PTSD stems both from childhood and six years in the Marines in the 1980s, he said.
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