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Sunday, October 06, 2013

Community Helps Terminally Ill Soldier

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A terminally ill soldier and his family received a lot more help than they could have imagined on moving day after a large response to a post on a well-known social media networking site.

After being contacted by someone close to the family, U.S Army W.T.F! Moments took action by posting a message to their Facebook audience of more than 328,000 people.

"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK - FT BRAGG people, a wounded brother is need of assistance!" - This message was all it took for approximately 100 soldiers, retirees, and civilians to show up to help a fellow soldier Sept. 2, at a home in Fayetteville, N.C.

Cars filled the streets as people arrived, ready to help the Petrie family move from their large rental home, to a smaller home they recently purchased.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

In Salisbury, Most would have received a ticket for blocking the streets or unlawful gathering.

Anonymous said...

Why do you put these great stories up at Night.

Anonymous said...

So people can read them in the morning and have a nice day. Something positive to begin your day on.

Anonymous said...

These stories are posted as they come in I presume.Just remember; a lot of people work all night and need to be uplifted.Others stay up real real late.

Anonymous said...

Most of us don't work and live on Government hand outs. I for one need to read these blogs. It helps us keep up on new government programs and come down from my daily alcohol, drug induced high.