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Lowe's Employees Fix Vets Wheelchair, Because VA Wouldn't
Michael Berry ^ | Michael Berry

Posted on 07/14/2014 7:12:04 PM PDT by Morgana

Three unsung heroes at a Lowe’s Home Improvements store fixed a Vietnam veteran’s broken-down wheelchair, which was much more than his local Veterans Affairs office was willing to do.

He wrote this letter to his local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, to give thanks to the men and the company that went to bat for him, when the government wouldn’t.

In 1971, I stepped on a land mine in Vietnam and lost both legs above the knee.

For the past two years, I have been waiting to receive a new wheelchair from the Veterans Administration. In addition, I have been told that I am not entitled to a spare wheelchair.

On the evening of July 7, my wheelchair fell apart again, while shopping at Lowe’s Home Improvement Center in on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor.

Three employees, David, Marcus and Souleyman jumped to my assistance immediately. They placed me in another chair while they went to work. They took the wheelchair apart and replaced the broken parts and told me, “We’re going to make this chair like new.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ktrh.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: lowes; thankslowes; thanksvets; vets; wheelchair
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1 posted on 07/14/2014 7:12:04 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

All the money went to mosques overseas, and to weapons
and MANPADss for al Qaeda, and for healthcare for criminal
illegal “children”.

What did the EXEMPT Congress do about it?

They took ambien, alcohol, made themselves EXEMPT
to Law, and enjoyed their in-House brothels.


2 posted on 07/14/2014 7:15:27 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Morgana

Mean while the feds drive in freight trains full of illegals, with DHS escorts...Government looted hundreds of billions from the tax payers to subsidize millions of illegals, in just the past decade alone.

3 posted on 07/14/2014 7:18:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Morgana

Don’t worry the FDA will sue lowes for creating a new unlicensed medical device...


4 posted on 07/14/2014 7:19:30 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Morgana

Watch Michelle horn in on this somehow.


5 posted on 07/14/2014 7:19:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: dragnet2
Mean while the feds drive in freight trains full of illegals, with DHS escorts...Government looted hundreds of billions from the tax payers to subsidize millions of illegals, in just the past decade alone.

Right you are. Here's video evidence....

Illegals bused to Walmart

6 posted on 07/14/2014 7:20:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Morgana

This story makes me teary-eyed...


7 posted on 07/14/2014 7:36:49 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Morgana

I don’t believe a word of this, the VA is slow but not two years slow. His rating has to be 100%.


8 posted on 07/14/2014 7:40:33 PM PDT by GreatMan
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To: Morgana; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Ping.


9 posted on 07/14/2014 7:42:36 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If she does tell her to go vacation Mt. St. Helens.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3179612/posts


10 posted on 07/14/2014 7:46:13 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Thank you for posting this.


11 posted on 07/14/2014 7:48:10 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Me too. Sweet story.


12 posted on 07/14/2014 7:48:51 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: GraceG

lets not forget OSHA..and the EPA....and of course the UNIONS


13 posted on 07/14/2014 7:49:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Diogenesis

so we don’t; have money for vets, VA, homeless but hey lets get billions for illegals.

The house is as much to blame as bozo the clown for this as they do nothing to stop this crap.


14 posted on 07/14/2014 7:54:00 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Morgana

Thank you for posting this today. Maybe, just maybe the very thing that made this country great isn’t quite dead yet.


15 posted on 07/14/2014 7:59:36 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Morgana

Are those “scientists” bat-sh!t insane? Setting off explosives at a volcano? And I thought I did stupid things...


16 posted on 07/14/2014 8:00:13 PM PDT by wastedyears (Everything Obama does wrong is Bush's fault.)
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To: wastedyears

“And I thought I did stupid things...”

Same here.


17 posted on 07/14/2014 8:16:08 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: usconservative

The people no. The politicians..that’s another story.


18 posted on 07/14/2014 8:17:59 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: wastedyears

What’s stupid about it? You think the mountain is full of dynamite or something?

FR is getting too low-IQ for me.


19 posted on 07/14/2014 8:18:56 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: GreatMan

After being tricked by the Grandma saying KFC refused to serve a little girl whose face was ripped up by pit bulls, I too have become more cynical. But what do you mean that his rating mustve been 100%? What’s being measured?


20 posted on 07/14/2014 8:23:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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