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What Happened to This Wheelchair-Bound Veteran in a Lowe’s Store Is the Best Thing You’ll Read Today
Top Right News ^ | 07-14-2014 | Gina Cassini

Posted on 07/14/2014 3:07:27 PM PDT by montag813

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Above: Employees of the nightshift at Lowe’s in Staten Island, New York - David, Marcus and Souleyman - get to work.

by Gina Cassini | Top Right News

Veteran Michael Sulsona had been waiting on a new wheelchair from the VA for years.

But as with so many vets suffering under scandalous conditions in the VA system, he got nowhere. His wheelchair was rickety and always seemed on the verge of collapse. Then one day it did exactly that-- right when he was shopping in a Staten Island-area Lowe's. But what happened next

That’s when three strangers stepped right in to help him. Sulsona wrote this letter to the Staten Island Advance to share the story and express his gratitude...


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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: disabled; va; veteran; vietnam

1 posted on 07/14/2014 3:07:27 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Great story. BUT, it should infuriate us all, knowing that a Veteran, who lost limbs in a war is not entitled to a free top drawer wheelchair. IT IS THE PEOPLES MONEY, and I don’t know of anyone who would not want this vet provided with the best. To see a vet riding around in a rickety wheelchair that falls apart makes me sick.


2 posted on 07/14/2014 3:12:57 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: montag813

To think, at Home Depot, he would probably have had it stolen by a disgruntled lesbian.


3 posted on 07/14/2014 3:13:49 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Toespi
IT IS THE PEOPLES MONEY, and I don’t know of anyone who would not want this vet provided with the best.

Liberals don't; they think it serves him right for fighting those poor third world victims.

4 posted on 07/14/2014 3:17:05 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: montag813

Has Lowe’s fired the employees yet? Oh, wait, I’m thinking about Home Despot.

Good on Lowe’s for loving on our Veterans!


5 posted on 07/14/2014 3:18:25 PM PDT by MeganC (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: Toespi
Great story. BUT, it should infuriate us all, knowing that a Veteran, who lost limbs in a war is not entitled to a free top drawer wheelchair. IT IS THE PEOPLES MONEY, and I don’t know of anyone who would not want this vet provided with the best. To see a vet riding around in a rickety wheelchair that falls apart makes me sick.

Yep.

We see all that money the government wastes, yet we can't even afford a stupid decent wheelchair for a disabled vet? Pathetic.

6 posted on 07/14/2014 3:18:38 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: MeganC
Has Lowe’s fired the employees yet? Oh, wait, I’m thinking about Home Despot.

No kidding. A Democrat business. LGBTQ Friendly to the Max. Others need not apply.

7 posted on 07/14/2014 3:21:39 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: ozarkgirl

I cringe when I see all of the ads on TV for helping the vets. Not that I dont want to help the vets—rather it sickens me that we have to rely on third parties to pick up the slack. If a vet is truly disabled, then there should be no question that they get what they need. They should get treatment, they should get their homes renovated, they should receive compensation for not being 100% fit when they are discharged.

I do not understand why we kiss the stinking, diseased asses of Honduran kids—but we cannot spend that same money on our vets.


8 posted on 07/14/2014 3:25:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: montag813

So many conflicting emotions with this story.

God bless this vet, and these young men who apparently haven’t had all the sense “educated” out of them.


9 posted on 07/14/2014 3:29:18 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: montag813

Saw this on FaceBook and was moved...good for those employees.
But he’ll bells, this is a perfect example of how the govt is NOT the answer for healthcare, housing, blah, blah, blah.
Our ONLY responsibility is to those who defend us and their retirement, especially if wounded in the line of duty.


10 posted on 07/14/2014 3:47:16 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: montag813

From now on these guys are real heroes too.


11 posted on 07/14/2014 3:48:23 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: montag813

made me have tears then rage...this Obama can spend millions traveling all over the world, gives his campaign donors half a billion for green energy but veterans like this have to wait years for a top notch wheelchair..I’m pissed off!


12 posted on 07/14/2014 3:54:18 PM PDT by RginTN
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Here’s one of the worst things you’ll read - (from a liberal):

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/156810-military-fiance-returns-car-find-hate-filled-threatening-letter-windshield/

From the link: “It’s people like you and your “soldier” who are destructing our country, shame on you b****! You’re lucky I didn’t slash your damn tires!!”


13 posted on 07/14/2014 3:55:15 PM PDT by GOPJ (A ship once out of port is hard to capture:know this now before it is too late. - Solon)
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To: montag813

Disgraceful that the government would let a wounded warrior like this gentleman live like a dog with a rickety wheelchair which could have collapsed while he was crossing a street, but they have LOTS of money to send to Palestinian terrorists, and hand out underwear, free education and free medical care and free housing to a bunch of diseased illiterate felonious vermin crossing our border. Absolutely disgusting.


14 posted on 07/14/2014 3:58:38 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: montag813

Be interesting to see what major leftist newspapers failed to cover this story. I guess it would make government look even worse, if that’s possible.

Hundreds of billions to subsidize illegal aliens over the past decade alone...Then reading stories like this about Americans who genuinely need help, make me want to spit lightening bolts...


15 posted on 07/14/2014 6:03:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: montag813

Great story!


16 posted on 07/14/2014 6:50:52 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Toespi

“Great story. BUT, it should infuriate us all, knowing that a Veteran, who lost limbs in a war is not entitled to a free top drawer wheelchair”

You didn’t get the memo, Toe... Obama and the GOPe need that money to give free stuff to illegal aliens.


17 posted on 07/15/2014 12:37:42 AM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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