April 23, 2009

A Calling for Kids

By Marty Michaels

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(Photograph by Ed Kashi/Corbis)

Rick Koca was one year shy of retiring from a 30-year career in the U.S. Navy when he found his true calling: providing runaway youths with food, clothing, and, perhaps most important, an open mind and a sympathetic ear.

In 1990, spurred

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