By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
DADE CITY — Born in Tennessee, raised in Alabama, Charles Haag was a man in transit.
He spent most of his adult life between odd jobs, in steel factories and tree tops and oil rigs, said his sister, Mary White. Haag, 32, would spend his pay on crack cocaine, the addiction that followed him for years. Most times he would end up where he started, at home with White and their mother in Tuscaloosa.
"He never really stayed in one point for too long," White said. "Whenever he got tired of where he was, he always came back to his momma."
His lifelines were his letters home, sent about once a week. He wrote that he loved his family, and missed them, and that soon he would, as White said, "make something of himself." He wrote he was sorry for not ...