Without much financial assistance, she was really struggling. She admitted to Dave that she was down to her last $50.She didn’t know what she would do after that.The news anchor was excited to be able to help.He paid for the entire cost of the groceries, and Stephanie couldn’t have been more grateful.Dave noticed the man behind her.
“Is this your husband?” he asked.Actually, the man was a friend of her husband.This man, named Larry, was another veteran who had been in the same club as Stephanie’s husband.The club, Bones For Blankets, focused on donating blankets to homeless veterans.Larry had started the organization 16 years previously after he tragically lost three of his brothers.They had all frozen to death. The experience locked into Larry’s mind just how important sharing resources is.Larry explained that Stephanie’s husband was a truck driver and that his job caused him to be away a lot.
Larry drove the woman everywhere she needed to go.Sympathetic to her struggle, he wanted to do whatever he could to make her life easier.
“No vet should be going through what she’s going through,” he said.Larry drove Stephanie to the grocery store, even though he himself couldn’t afford to buy groceries.As he stood in the check-out line, he only held a bottle of dish soap and a piece of candy.It was all he could afford.Dave refused to let the kind vet leave the store without any real groceries.
“You served us,” he told the veteran. “It’s our turn to serve you now.”
Larry’s eyes were watery.As he walked with Dave back into the aisles, he shared his story.They filled the cart to the brim with food and toiletries.It was much more than the man had expected when he got out of bed that morning.The veteran admitted that he was overwhelmed with the kindness he was being shown.He had taken care of himself since he was a teenager, and now a stranger showed up out of the blue just to buy him food.Larry offered to repay Dave.The reporter replied that Larry had already done his part.
