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A soldier's autograph
The Wilson family was vacationing ac Disney World
when, on a bus ride around the park, 8-year-old twins
Drew and Adam found themselves sitting beside a man
with a walking cane. As they spoke, the children learned
he was wounded as a soldier during the Vietnam War.
“One of my boys asked us for a pen and paper, and
then asked the man for his autograph,” says Timothy
Wilson of Georgetown, Ohio (pop. 3,691). “We had spent
the day surrounded by Disney cartoon characters with
hundreds of kids standing in line for their autographs, but
this was the autograph that Drew wanted . . . because this
man fought in the war. The man, along with my wife and
me, were in tears as he proudly signed his name and rank
for my boys. One of those proud parent moments! "
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A good deed landed Jackie Morris (left) a job at McDonald’s
from Mike Bold, the restaurant’s general manager in Alton, Ml.
A job for Jackie
While munching on his lunch at a McDonald's restaurant
one day in Alton, 111. (pop. 30,496). Jackie Morris noticed an
elderly couple nearby and offered to take their trash to the waste
can. "My parents and grandmother taught me to be polite to
people," explains Morris, who suffers from a mental illness and
has cared for himself since his parents died in 2001. He didn’t
realize anyone noticed his act of kindness until the restaurant’s
general manager, Mike Bold, approached to ask it he worked for
him. “I said, ‘No, but I’m looking for a job, ” Morris recalls.
Bold told him to come back to the restaurant on Friday and
they’d fill out the paperwork and, as Morris says, "the rest is
history.” The 47-year-old has worked at McDonald’s for three
years, sweeping floors, wiping down tables and making sure
napkins, straws and lids are stocked on the condiment table.
“When Jackie called to tell me he’d gotten a job offer him
self, I was surprised,” says Kelly Schiilinger, his job coach at
Challenge Unlimited, a nonprofit organization that helps people
with disabilities find work. “But when he told me what he did
that led to the job, it didn’t surprise me at all, because that’s just
Jackie. That s how he is. He’s a person with a good heart.”
The effects of Morris' simple goodwill gesture didn’t stop
there. Four McDonald’s operated by Bold’s family have since
hired 15 other people served by Challenge Unlimited, and
Bold has received regional and state awards for his willingness
to hire people with disabilities. “It's been a huge ripple effect,"
Schiilinger says. “It just shows how a simple act of kindness
can affect other people's lives. Because of Jackie and his kind
ness, a lot of other people have found jobs, too.”
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