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Living the American Dream

She is 18 months older than him, but Martina Correia says her brother Troy and she can complete each other’s sentences. Before their life began to unravel in 1989, the Davis family lived their American dream. “My father, after he left the Military, was the Chatham County Sheriff’s Deputy. We had a brand new house, with two cars, a boat, our picket fence and dogs. We lived in a community full of middle class black people, played ball for the Police Athletic league. Troy became a junior coach. I was the tomboy but Troy was a mama’s boy. Very close to my mother, very protective of our family. We were taught to be respectful to everyone and taught that you don’t lie, you don’t cheat and if you do something wrong, you own up.

When my sister was about 13 she suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. Just like that..the doctors said she will never walk again. She stayed in the hospital for two years. I was in the Military, and Troy was the oldest child home. So when my sister got out of the hospital, my mother withdrew Troy from regular High School. He went to High School at night and graduated with Honors. During the day he would work and take care of my sister. He bathed her, did her hair, catheterized her, took her to physical therapy and all her doctor’s appointments. When she came home they wanted to give her an electric wheel chair. But Troy said she will walk. We got a manual wheel chair and he would take her out and tell her that if she wanted to get back to the house she will have to walk. When she graduated High School she walked across the stage with a walker because of Troy.



If you come to Savannah and ask anyone who really knew Troy, they will tell you how much people liked him. He is very bright. I was in the Military and he was getting ready to go into the Marine corps. We believed in God and the country.”

Troy was always the peace maker, says Martina, the problem solver in a conflict when people were fighting. He always tried to intervene and help resolve the disagreement. “In fact he told me, ‘ Tina if I wasn’t doing what I usually do and that’s trying to stop somebody from hurting somebody that night, I would not be here today.”

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