Dear Mayor Adler and Governor Abbott, Happy July 4. In the spirit of the holiday, I am writing to urge you both to work together to solve the issues surrounding homelessness. On August 7, 1942, my dad’s Marine troop landed on the shore of Guadalcanal. His troop thought the natives were so happy to see the Americans there to defend freedom that they were running out to the shoreline with open arms repeating a greeting in a foreign language. Turns out they were saying “Marines go home.” My dad was one of a small handful Marines from that troop to live to tell the tale. A few months later, at barely 18 years old, my dad was in Guadalcanal dying of black water fever and malaria. The only reason he lived is because the same natives nursed him back to health. My worldly dad gave me lots of advice. One thing that rings true, no matter what, was this: “You can do anything you want – so long as you are willing to pay the consequences.” Fast forward to 2019 in Austin, Texas. W