[Mr. Jazzy]

Angels among us.

[Calpernia]

A Marine who's planning to marry a Texan got an early Christmas present: A fellow shopper picked up the tab for a $3,000 diamond engagement ring after the two struck up a conversation in a jewelry store.

The 54-year-old Dallas woman who paid for the 1-carat, princess cut diamond ring wants to remain anonymous, Helzberg Diamonds spokeswoman Stacey McBride told The Associated Press on Friday.

The woman's father was in the military, her brother was a Marine who died in Vietnam and her nephew just got back from Iraq, McBride said.

[yarddog]

Not quite as impressive but I knew two seminary students who were eating at a restaurant in New Orleans. A lady was at a table next to them, waiting on her husband.

They struck up a conversation with her. When she found out they were two preachers, she handed them a hundred dollar bill and said she wanted to pay for their meal. She was Mike Ditka's wife.

[Palladin]

What a great story! That lady sure had the Christmas spirit, and the spirit of a Patriot!

God bless her and the happy couple.

[lewislynn]

Christmas time 1966 I was sitting, in uniform, at the coffee shop counter at Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas drinking a milkshake at about 2AM.

The waitress came to me and said someone who wishes to remain anonymous would like to buy you anything you like....About the only people in there were Frank Sinatra, Buddy Hackett and someone else I don't remember, sitting in a booth.

[UB355]

On our local news a couple presented a widow of a US solder killed in Iraq a check for $1000.00 for Christmas.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ping, Tonk, to a WONDERFUL story!!

[Marine_Uncle]

What a truly loving thing to do! This lady gets a real HUGE Semper FI from me!

[LaineyDee]

This is just down the road from me... COOL! Makes me proud!

[presently no screen name]

you'll enjoy this heart warming story.

[No Truce With Kings]

This story sound SO like East Texas -- Anderson, Henderson, Smith County and thereabout. I am really pleased to see something like this happen, but considering where it happened I am not surprised.

[nmh]

Thank you for posting this!

What a wonderful story!!!!!

[McGavin999]

May God richly bless that fine woman. She gave a real head start to that young couple. What a beautiful way to express her support and gratitude.

[phoenix0468]

If I had $3000 to blow, I would do that too! Really, I mean it. They should make that kind of thing tax deductible!!

[Nightshift]

PING

[thebaron512]

That is a great story!

If you can, please contact your local VA hospitals to help out the Vets, who have become barely remembered by the rest of the country. They need simple items to keep comfortable, which can be as simple as Socks.

My Masonic Lodge donates money several times a Year to our local VA hospital and several the members help out. I plan to help out for the new wave of Vets from the War on Terror for technology needs.

If you can't donate Noney, why not a Few Hours a month? Listen to this Old Timers and learn an almost forgotten history. I have met a Vet who was involved in capturing the Death Camps that the Islamic morons have claimed don't exist.

[MJY1288]

Patti, you have to read this story :-)

[Steve0113]

ping!

[Rembrandt]

This woman deserves all the blessings of the Christmas Season and the Military Services. What a great person!

[SuziQ]

What an outstanding gift that lovely woman gave that Marine! God Bless her!