{"id":53855,"date":"2014-07-14T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53855"},"modified":"2014-07-14T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:45:21","slug":"lowes-employees-help-stranded-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53855","title":{"rendered":"Lowe&#8217;s employees help stranded vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sulsona, a veteran who lost his legs in Vietnam tells the story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/northshore\/index.ssf\/2014\/07\/good_news_lowes_employees_come.html\">SILive<\/a> about what happened when his wheelchair broke while shopping in Lowes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the evening of July 7, my wheelchair fell apart again, while shopping at Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement Center in on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Three employees, David, Marcus and Souleyman jumped to my assistance immediately. They placed me in another chair while they went to work.<\/p>\n<p>They took the wheelchair apart and replaced the broken parts and told me, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to make this chair like new.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I left 45 minutes after closing hours in my wheelchair that was like new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When he tried to thank them, their response was that it had been their honor to help him. I&#8217;ve always found Lowe&#8217;s employees to be some of the best and helpful young Americans around. This story just reinforces my perception.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bob &#038; Sgt K for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sulsona, a veteran who lost his legs in Vietnam tells the story in SILive about what happened when his wheelchair broke while shopping in Lowes; On the evening of July 7, my wheelchair fell apart again, while shopping at Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement Center in on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor. Three employees, David, Marcus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-e0D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}