class act

[Wide Earp]

The veteran's favorite meal is the chicken nuggets kid's meal with root beer. (Fox 59)
"All of us take turns sitting with him and eating with him," said team leader Amy Chambliss to Fox 59. "We just enjoy his company.”
“He just makes you feel good,” owner Chris Tincher told the news outlet.
The active nonagenarian still drives and mows his lawn with a push-mower, Fox 59 reported, and then comes in to Chick-fil-A for “the best root beer in town,” Ernie said.
“He's just so warm," Luebbert said to Fox 59. "Anytime you take his food to him, he’d ask how we were doing, and then it got to where we just formed a friendship.”
TACO BELL LOVER CELEBRATES 106TH BIRTHDAY AT FAST FOOD RESTAURANT
Tincher, also a veteran, and his team wanted to honor Ernie for brightening their days by giving him a free meal every time he comes to their restaurant. The team told Ernie about the idea on Veteran’s Day.

“James came up with a really good idea as we were thinking of how to honor you," Tincher said in the video posted to Facebook. "He said 'what if when Ernie came in, he never had to pay for Chick-fil-A again, when he came to our restaurant?' So that was James' idea, he wanted to honor you. So we wanted to say every time you come into this restaurant, you’re family now. So you no longer have to pay for any of your meals.”
Though Ernie tried to refuse the generous offer, saying he didn’t think he “deserved a free meal,” he eventually accepted.
"It just makes me feel good," Ernie said to Fox 59. "It makes me feel good because people treat me nice."

 

[Ruger#3]

Good stuff, there’s still great folks around doing good deeds.
Shame the idiots get most of the attention.

 

[Jeff C.]

Good stuff, there’s still great folks around doing good deeds.
Shame the idiots get most of the attention.

X2, don’t hear enough of these kinds of stories.

 

[JustUs4All]

Warning, I may have told this story here before, age'll do that to a fellow.

My wife and I were driving through NW Ohio and stopped in Van Wert to eat. We found a cafe in town that looked like it has a good local clientele. It was a very friendly place and we learned that the waitress was working her way through nursing school. When she brought the check she asked if either of us was a veteran. At that point I realized that it was Veteran's Day. I told her that I was and she told us that the check was taken care of. We had had a full and very good meal. I tried to decline but the waitress said that the benefactor had been quietly doing this for years for each and every veteran who ate at that cafe on Veteran's Day and that he really wanted to do it. We tipped the waitress the full cost of the meal with the usual tip and walked out feeling as good as our nameless benefactor must have. We will never forget that day or Van Wert, Ohio.

 

[Ruger#3]

I cant tell you the number of times I've seen million milers have the Flight Attendant tell an active duty member that a first class seat just became available for you.

Seeing folks do the right thing keeps the embers of hope stirred.

 

[GunnSmokeer]

The youngest of the World War Two vets who actually went overseas and saw combat, or were in a combat zone, before the war ended, have to be at least 92 now.
That's about how old the few surviving Civil War veterans were in the middle 1930s.
In about 1930 or '31, on November 11 (then called Armistice Day) my dad was in middle school (no, they didn't have the day off). The school did, however, have a special presentation in the gym / auditorium where one veteran of the Great War, one veteran of the Spanish American War, and one old veteran of the Civil War came and each told a short tale about their experiences in their wars.

I wish more schools would do this today.
They could have vets from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the post-9/11 war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.