Uplifting Phone Call That Made My Day!

 This morning the phone rang and it wasn't a number I recognized so of course I answered to see if my car warranty was about to expire!  I'm so glad I did because it was a heartwarming discussion with a nice guy I'll call Comrade Legs [because he's 6 feet 5 inches tall!].

Legs has been a member of the VFW since 1956.  He joined the Navy and served from 1946-1948, then went into the Reserve.  He was called up in 1951 for the Korean War and served on the USS Yorktown CVA-10 for three tours.  He's 92 years old now.

A long time ago, as he told me, several World War II veterans gave him a box and told him not to open it right away. He eventually did and found it contained Past State Commanders' pins and some challenge coins going back a lot of years.  He then kept the tradition alive by adding newer pins as he got them.  He was calling me [again, no idea how he got my home phone number] to ask if I had a pin from the year I was the Illinois State Commander [2013-2014] and would I send it to him.  Naturally the answer was OF COURSE!  Legs wanted me to know that he was going to put together all of the pins he has and turn them over to his post for a display.  How nice is that!

Legs is going to get my State pin, as well as coins from me being the State Commander, Judge Advocate General, and of course the several coins I have had as the National Junior and Senior Commander in Chief.  I reached out to my State counterparts, the Senior Vice Commanders of the 52 Departments of the VFW, and told them about Legs and his request.  All I'm going to say is that Legs' mail carrier is going to be swamped with pin and coin packages from all over the world in the coming weeks and months.  And I'm sure we are going to keep a smile on Leg's face for a very long time.

It's the simple things in life my friends that warm the cockles of our hearts.  I've never met him, but for today, Legs is my hero!