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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - When a familiar face in downtown Nashville was recently hospitalized, two men stepped up to find his family. Local homeless man David Milliken is now at the ICU at Nashville General, but thanks to the hard work of two men, he'll soon to be reunited with a family he hasn't seen in nearly 20 years. MORE Special Click to read more headlines from Davidson County.More >> A still picture can tell a story through a scene or through a simple facial expression. "What I find really, really interesting is the human connection," said Jerry Craddock, of Murfreesboro. Picking up clothes to carry to those in need, Craddock and friend Scott Walker said they started doing black and white photography of the local homeless to tell stories you don't always hear. They said one of the most special of those stories is that of Milliken. "Whenever we'd bring him anything, he'd say, 'Thanks! God bless you!,'" Walker said. "He always had a big smile on his face." "When you leave, he'll stop you and say, 'Hey, hey, love you man!'" Craddock added. From his bench downtown where you'd always find him, Milliken had his back to the capitol, faced the library and listened to the constant sound of a fountain in the distance. When Craddock and Walker didn't find him last week in an area they've come to know as Camp David, they knew something was wrong. "Police found him early the day after Christmas, and he was unresponsive," Walker said. "He had frost bite. He had severe pneumonia and staph infection." "He'd shown up with a core temperature of 90 degrees," Craddock said. "He had low blood pressure, high blood sugar. I just so wanted him to roll over and look through that glass and see us there because I think that human connection can be healing." Craddock and Walker took to Facebook trying to find Milliken's family. "My post was shared I don't know how many times all over the place," Walker said. "Finally someone contacted me and said, 'I know his family.'" That was an incredible call for Milliken's brother, Tyrone Kendall, who said he hadn't seen his brother since 1996 and wasn't even sure he was alive. "We didn't know what happened to him or what was going on with him," Kendall said. "Glad to know where he's at, and we can finally come and check on him and go from there." A family soon to be reunited, Craddock and Walker are waiting for they day they can snap a new shot of Milliken's smiling face again. "They're going to be able to know the closing of this story," Walker said. "They're going to find out where he'd been all these years. They're going to find out people loved him, people watched out for him, people walked by every day and prayed for him." "It makes you feel good to know you touched somebody's life and hopefully helped them in a positive way," Craddock added. Kendall said he lives in west Tennessee and plans to come visit his brother this Saturday. Read more: http://www.wsmv.com/story/27744541/residents-use-social-media-to-find-family-of-sick-homeless-man#ixzz3Nd4ypxNt Reported by Forrest Sanders