You might want to try reading the article. Your "indigence" bullet point is in there:
Her National Guard duty, with the 129th Signal Battalion, brought in extra money. Her ex-husband paid child support. Still, she only scraped by, with the help of public assistance.
72 posted on 11/29/2006 9:21:19 AM PST by steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)