Posted on 11/29/2015 3:33:28 PM PST by SJackson
n his way to visit Israel with his family, a Los Angeles businessman came upon 400 U.S. soldiers preparing to eat their paper sack dinners during a layover in Shannon, Ireland and decided he wanted to honor them with a good warm meal.
As the regular passengers and friends were all dining at the various trendy restaurants, entrepreneur and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz approached the commander and told him that he wanted to treat the servicemen to the same. At first the commander said it was unnecessary, but Shlomo insisted, and the commander announced to all the soldiers that they could eat a meal at any restaurant up to $50. After the servicemen ate, the commander asked if Shlomo would share with all of them why he wanted to do this.
Rechnitz addressed the men saying,
" ...you guys risk your lives to protect me and protect my family. If I get to go out and see a whole bunch of Army soldiers and Marines, it's something that makes me proud. I'm on my way to Israel now and you guys protect them too, and I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart."
Army private B. Murray spoke up on behalf of the thankful troops...
Obvious fascist pig./s
I do that too but I do not go to fancy restaurants! More like Cracker Barrel on interstates. It is the least I can do. I was in the Atlanta airport years ago. There were many soldiers at the next gate getting ready to board. I did not have time to buy them anything but this great grandmother went up to them to see if they were coming home from the ME or going there. They were on their way over there. The only thing I knew to do was give as many as I could big hugs and say thank you and God bless. It may have meant more to me than them though. I just wanted one of their last sights to be a thankful American citizen.
What a nice thing you did, MamaB!
A warm hug from a grateful fellow American may have been just the thing some of them needed right then.
BTW, I’m a Cracker Barrel type person also.
Very cool.
Wonderful. Many blessings to this man.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/fly-burger-bar-boutique-atlanta
This place rocks. I have chosen to change flights there just to get one of these burgers.
May it return to him a hundred fold.
I tried reading this to my wife but couldn’t finish because of the tears. What a really nice thing to do.
Neat story!
Back to the top. This is great.
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
I did this once in an airport, I can’t remember where, perhaps Dallas and I was traveling with my wife. I noticed a gentleman was wearing a T-shirt that indicated the person was an Army Ranger. You really had to be paying attention to notice the Ranger part. I was paying attention, I called the waitress over and told her I was buying his drink or anything else he was having. My wife asked why and I simply explained it was the least that I could do. The gentleman upon being told by the waitress that his tab was covered, asked the waitress who paid it, came over, said it wasn’t necessary and thanked me. It was the best bar tab I ever paid.
Haym Salomon (ca. 1740 - 1785)
Haym Salomon (also Solomon April 7, 1740 – January 6, 1785) was a Polish-born American Jewish businessman and political financial broker who immigrated to New York from Poland during the period of the American Revolution. He helped convert the French loans into ready cash by selling bills of exchange forRobert Morris, the Superintendent of Finance. In this way he aided the Continental Army and was possibly, along with Morris, the prime financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon
Possibly as a result of his purchases of government debt, Salomon died penniless in 1785.
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/haym_salomom.html
I am not Jewish...but my Boss is a Jewish Carpenter... ( ; )
Amen.
Shlomo Rechnitz Pays for US Soldiers Meal in Shannon, Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBuyXxOLnc
Read this on facebook book but didn’t know if it was true.Brings a smile :)
At an airport? 5.
Shlomo bump!
about $10 for a beer at an airport and $8 for a slice of lousy pizza to go with it
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