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       Your feel good story of the day
   DIR 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
       #Post#: 14523--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Your feel good story of the day
   DIR By: rapids_60
       Date: July 17, 2014, 12:38 am
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       > Following Sulsona's letter, the Department of Veterans Affairs
       finally sent him the wheelchair replacement he had been waiting
       on for two years,
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       The VA's incompetence can be mind boggling some days.  Hats off
       to the Lowes' employees.
       #Post#: 14525--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Your feel good story of the day
   DIR 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
   DIR By: trollslayer
       Date: July 17, 2014, 8:15 am
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       --- Quote from: 2fat link ---
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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
       >
       --- End 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
   DIR By: rapids_60
       Date: July 17, 2014, 1:08 pm
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       --- Quote from: trollslayer link ---
       >
       > Of course he blamed them for his lung condition but never did
       elaborate.
       >
       --- End 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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