Veterans Day is a day off for most Americans. But for Sonny, a Marine Corps veteran himself, it was a day on.
"I sell the paper six, sometimes seven days a week to pay my rent," he says, "You know, to have a roof over my head."
A Real Change vendor for two and a half years, Sonny sells an average of 600-700 papers a month. In fact, he's sold more than 600 papers monthly since he first started. A hard worker, no doubt. But he enjoys it, too.
"It's a pretty good paper," he says, "you meet a lot of new people, new friends." ...