― Richard Gere
A woman I
know sometimes helps out a gentleman who collects money on a street corner that
she frequently drives by. The gentleman
dresses in fatigues and has an ID badge from the Veterans Administration. He collects money, but he sometimes asks her
for water or for something sweet. Although
she is not sure whether he collects money for himself or for a veterans'
organization, she tries to be prepared when she sees him -- sometimes she will
give him money or a gift card or something to eat.
On a recent
weekend, this woman and her family were on their way to dinner at the home of
friends. They were running late. As they drove by an intersection, the woman
saw the gentleman in fatigues and pointed him out to her husband, but they were already
past him. Although she did not ask him
to do anything, her husband made two U-turns, so that they could slow down and
drive by the gentleman in his fatigues.
As the woman was searching for a $5 bill in her purse, her husband gave
the veteran $20. The woman smiled,
grateful for her husband's kindness. And
they continued on -- even later -- to the dinner.
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