Homeless man’s savings bonds returned 30 years later – just when he needed them the most

CHICAGO, Ill. - To understand this story, you have to go back 30 years and 600 miles to a pawn shop in Junction City, Kansas.
It was there that a Chicago guy stationed at a  local U.S. Army base hawked a handful of $100 savings bonds. It was quick cash for a young man in need of a little spending money.
Little did he know that exchange would find its way back to him as a 58-year-old man when he was in even greater need.
Chris Mathis, the owner of that Kansas pawn shop, got his mind set on