A fun evening traveling

[JRLawrence]

Originally Posted by Dawg

Coming home through Atlanta last night, I had an hour to kill. There was a couple in the restaurant, one military, one civilian. Having a big dinner. I called the waitress over and asked if their dinner had been purchased. nope. One AMEX took care of their dinner and whatever else they wanted in that place. I caught my my flight and cried the entire way to KC. God Bless America and our Soldiers who protect us all the time.

I worked with a Navy Medical Corpsman who was scheduled for a discharge. He planned to celebrate making it through Nam with a ticket from New York to England on the last cruse on a certain ship (I remember it as the Queen Mary before it was dry docked, but a long time has passed.)

He was in uniform. He thought he had all of the cash he needed; but when he got to the ticket counter he was $60 short because of an additional fee. ($60 then is like $400 - $500 now.) The guy behind him stepped up and paid the money, and left his card for the money to be sent to him. (Credit cards were not as common then.)

The money was sent on the next payday. Everyone in the hospital knew about this, and everyone was really grateful about the nice treatment paid to one in uniform: civilians, Navy, and Marines.

It was a great booster for the injured Marines to hear that someone appreciated the sacrifice that the military makes.

JR

[growler]

Malwoody; one of the best things about owning your own business. Besides not having anyone telling you what to do. Is that you can put a good deed ,before profits if you choose. I know I enjoy that part of owning a business,and well not being told what to do lol......................Dawg ;thank you for your post/kind act. It services as a reminder that each day we are have the opportunely, to preform an act of kindness for another. Well done sir.

[bcdstudios]

Nice job Dawg, that reminds me of… one time at band camp…

I was flying out of LAX after a photo shoot heading back to KC - A Marine was two people in front of me in line at Burger King and I waited until he was done ordering and I snuck up behind him (maybe not the best thing to do to a US Marine) and I said add a pie to that order - MAKE IT CHOCOLATE!!!! - and handed my CC to the employee. He jumped, turned around and laughed cause he got scared!

We all had a great laugh!! He thanked me cause he was heading back home to visit family after being in Afghanistan for his tour of duty. God bless all our soldiers and their families during the holidays.

[Audrey Astor]

That is so cool of you!!! Thanks for reminding me of a "pay it forward" I need to complete.

[BigMikeinKC]

Originally Posted by JRLawrence

I worked with a Navy Medical Corpsman who was scheduled for a discharge. He planned to celebrate making it through Nam with a ticket from New York to England on the last cruse on a certain ship (I remember it as the Queen Mary before it was dry docked, but a long time has passed.)

He was in uniform. He thought he had all of the cash he needed; but when he got to the ticket counter he was $60 short because of an additional fee. ($60 then is like $400 - $500 now.) The guy behind him stepped up and paid the money, and left his card for the money to be sent to him. (Credit cards were not as common then.)

The money was sent on the next payday. Everyone in the hospital knew about this, and everyone was really grateful about the nice treatment paid to one in uniform: civilians, Navy, and Marines.

It was a great booster for the injured Marines to hear that someone appreciated the sacrifice that the military makes.

JR

Nice to hear. coming
back from Nam, most were treated like crap.

[JRLawrence]

Originally Posted by BigMikeinKC

Nice to hear. coming
back from Nam, most were treated like crap.

I flew in and out of LA for assignments. Several years ago some guy sent a letter to the KC Star that the story about guys being spit on was a big lie.

I am here today to tell you. I was spit on at the LA airport when I wore my uniform on three occasions. It was by women, young ladies and grandmothers, who formed a gauntlet that we had to pass through the spit.

Some things are not right; you just live with them.

JR

[Mizzou82]

Back when the fight was full bore in Iraq, was playing poker with a young guy back on leave. He was terrible and obvious he was blowing through all his $. I beat him in a hand for his last $500. Caught up with him on his way out of the casino. I told him if he gave me his word of honor he would leave the casino, I would give him the 500 back. He teared up, I thanked him for his service and gave him his money back. Was not worried he was lying, but watched him leave and get in a car.