After An Injured Vet Waits 2 Years For A Wheelchair, These
Lowe’s Employees Do What The VA Won’t
By Caroline Schaeffer
Veteran Michael Sulsona had been
waiting on a new wheelchair from the VA for years. After receiving no help, his
broke down inside a Lowe’s.
That’s when three strangers
stepped in to help. Sulsona wrote this letter to the Staten Island Advance to
share the story and express his gratitude.
In 1971, I stepped on a land mine
in Vietnam and lost both legs above
the knee.
For the past two years, I have
been waiting to receive a new wheelchair
from the Veterans Administration. In
addition, I have been told that I am not entitled to a spare wheelchair.
On the evening of July 7, my
wheelchair fell apart again, while shopping at Lowe’s Home Improvement Center
in on Forest Avenue
in Mariners Harbor.
Three employees, David, Marcus,
and Souleyman jumped to my assistance immediately. They placed me in another
chair while they went to work.
They took the wheelchair apart and
replaced the broken parts and told me, “We’re going to make this chair like
new.”
I left 45 minutes after closing
hours in my wheelchair that was like new.
I kept thanking them and all they
could say was, “It was our honor.”
The actions of these three
employees at Lowe’s showed me there are some who still believe in stepping to
the plate.
They didn’t ask any questions,
didn’t feel the need to fill out any forms or make phone calls. Someone needed
help and they felt privileged to be given the opportunity.
When the federal government failed
this man, ordinary individuals took the lead. There is hope for humanity after
all – we just have to believe in the power of the human spirit.
Veterans Administration
Chuck
Hagel was a deputy administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration, the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and
is the secretary at the U.S. Department
of Defense for the Barack Obama
administration.
Note: Eric K. Shinseki
was the secretary at the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs for the Barack
Obama administration, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Togo
D. West Jr. was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs, an attorney
for Covington & Burling LLP, and
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States
(think tank).
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Goodwill Industries International.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, a board member for the American
Constitution Society, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
Joseph W. Ralston
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States
(think tank), and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), the American Constitution Society, and the Catholic Relief Services.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Committee
for Economic Development, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Kenneth F.
Hackett was the president for the Catholic
Relief Services, and is the U.S.
ambassador for the Holy See.
Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. was the U.S.
envoy for the Holy See, and the U.S. ambassador for South Vietnam.
Fidel
V. Ramos was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Wheelchair Foundation
Q: Are all of the wheelchairs
going to countries other than the United States?
A: No. The Salvation Army,
Goodwill Industries, Catholic
Charities, and other relief organizations are
working with us here in the U.S.
to distribute wheelchairs to people that need one but cannot afford one. Some
groups and organizations do sponsor 280 wheelchair containers to the US, at a cost
of $42,000 per container.
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is the president & CEO for the Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, the chair for the Roosevelt Institute, and an advisory
board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation.
Carl A. Anderson
was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, is a trustee at the Catholic
University of America, and a supreme knight for the Knights of Columbus.
Catherine B.
Reynolds is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Charles E.M. Kolb
is the president for the Committee for
Economic Development, and a director at the National Coalition on Health Care.
William A. Roberts
is a director at the National Coalition
on Health Care, and the national commander for the Salvation Army.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
Robert S. Strauss
was the U.S.
ambassador for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR), and a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the Goodwill Industries International, and
the Lowe's Companies Inc.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), Valerie
B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Cyrus F. Freidheim
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Third Way,
and was the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Thomas R. Carper
is an honorary co-chair for the Third Way,
and a member of the Vietnam Veterans of
America.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Obamacare is his signature policy initiative.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and
a VP at the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a director at the Procter
& Gamble Company.
Procter
& Gamble Company is a U.S. investor in Vietnam.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Catherine B.
Reynolds is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Charles E.M. Kolb
is the president for the Committee for
Economic Development, and a director at the National Coalition on Health Care.
William A.
Roberts is a director at the National
Coalition on Health Care, and the national commander for the Salvation Army.
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