“You’d have people from college come up and laugh at me because I was there with my hat and badge and no stars,” he says. “But it was what I had to do. I had no money. My parents were not here and I was staying with family friends. So I had a roof over my head, but I had to earn to live. There’s a dignity you get just by working and earning your own money.” In what it is, by any standards, a
