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Your feel good story of the day
By: trollslayer Date: July 16, 2014, 8:56 pm
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A Vietnam War veteran has written a touching tribute to three
Lowe's employees who fixed his wheelchair after it fell apart in
the store.
In a letter to the Staten Island Advance, Michael Sulsona — who
lost both his legs after stepping on a land mine 40 years ago —
explained that his wheelchair had repeatedly broken down and
he's been trying for two years to get a replacement from the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
On the evening of July 7, his wheelchair fell apart again at a
Lowe's store on Staten Island.
Sulsona said he was shocked that three employees immediately
stopped what they were doing to assist him.
After placing Sulsona in another wheelchair, "They took the
wheelchair apart and replaced the broken parts and told me,
'We're going to make this chair like new,'" he said.
The employees stayed nearly an hour after the store had closed
to fix the chair.
"I kept thanking them and all they could say was, 'It was our
honor,'" Sulsona wrote. "The actions of these three employees at
Lowe's showed me there are some who still believe in stepping to
the plate. They didn't ask any questions, didn't feel the need
to fill out any forms or make phone calls. Someone needed help
and they felt privileged to be given the opportunity."
Sulsona and his wife later returned to Lowe's to thank the
employees with homemade cookies and a framed photo of them
fixing the chair, according to the Staten Island Advance's
Andrew Simontacchi.
Read more:
HTML http://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-employees-fix-veteran-wheelchair-2014-7#ixzz37gdr5bvM
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Re: Your feel good story of the day
By: rapids_60 Date: July 17, 2014, 12:38 am
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[quote]Following Sulsona's letter, the Department of Veterans
Affairs finally sent him the wheelchair replacement he had been
waiting on for two years,[/quote]
The VA's incompetence can be mind boggling some days. Hats off
to the Lowes' employees.
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Re: Your feel good story of the day
By: 2fat Date: July 17, 2014, 7:40 am
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Think stories of poor care have been around for about ever!! My
dad would have nothing to do with them forty years ago
complaining about poor doctors etc---but at the same time a
friend here in Wisconsin got a heart/kidney transplant through
the efforts of the VA
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Re: Your feel good story of the day
By: trollslayer Date: July 17, 2014, 8:15 am
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[quote author=2fat link=topic=1134.msg14525#msg14525
date=1405600841]
Think stories of poor care have been around for about ever!! My
dad would have nothing to do with them forty years ago
complaining about poor doctors etc---but at the same time a
friend here in Wisconsin got a heart/kidney transplant through
the efforts of the VA
[/quote]
My dad stayed away from the VA as well, until his final days
that is. They helped make his final days dying of lung cancer
more comfortable. Of course he blamed them for his lung
condition but never did elaborate.
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Re: Your feel good story of the day
By: rapids_60 Date: July 17, 2014, 1:08 pm
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[quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1134.msg14526#msg14526
date=1405602927]
Of course he blamed them for his lung condition but never did
elaborate.
[/quote]
My FIL died of lung cancer attributed to asbestos exposure on
Navy ships. Ammo room explosions and kamikaze pilots hitting
the deck (sank one of his ships) stirs the stuff up.
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