{"id":708,"date":"2006-02-16T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/westchester_amnesiac_found_in_chicago.html"},"modified":"2006-02-16T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:43:39","slug":"westchester_amn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/westchester_amn.html","title":{"rendered":"Westchester Amnesiac Found In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

An amnesiac who left behind his family in August has been found living as a homeless man in Chicago, apparently unaware of his former life back in New York<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Raymond Power Jr. stepped out of his life some time on Aug. 1, 2005, the last day he awoke in Westchester County as a lawyer and New Rochelle resident, a 57-year-old husband and father of two, a Boy Scout leader and churchgoer.<\/p>\n

Within two days, he had stumbled into a new, uncertain and evidently unwanted life: as a homeless man in Chicago who could remember nothing of his former existence but for a semblance of his name: Jay Tower.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Mr. Power, who is apparently suffering from a severe case of amnesia, was found after a homeless friend discovered his picture on “America’s Most Wanted” Web site.<\/p>\n

His wife, Jane, and the couple’s two children, 11 and 17, were overjoyed. But as he undergoes tests at a Chicago hospital before his return, they are bracing for what comes next.<\/p>\n

“He doesn’t know who we are,” said Mrs. Power, his wife of 30 years, who has spoken with him on the phone. “He said, ‘Do I have children?’ and I said, ‘Yes, you have two children.’ Our prayers have been answered but yet they are very sad that he doesn’t know who they are and also very scared.”<\/p>\n

In a telephone interview, Mrs. Power said that her husband, a Vietnam War veteran, had been treated for depression since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, both with medication and counseling.<\/p>\n

Mr. Power walked between the two towers 15 minutes before the first plane hit, she said, but was on board a subway bound for the Bronx when the attack took place. She believes that Sept. 11 dredged up painful memories of Vietnam.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An amnesiac who left behind his family in August has been found living as a homeless man in Chicago, apparently unaware of his former life back in New York: Raymond Power Jr. stepped out of his life some time on Aug. 1, 2005, the last day he awoke in Westchester County as a lawyer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-the_screenwriters_idea_bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}