Acts of Kindness
Woman And Kroger Staff Rush To Help Elderly Veteran
The way she treated him was beyond admirable.
D.G. Sciortino
09.12.18

This story “restored my faith in humanity.” Sick of hearing that tired saying? Me too! That’s because most humans are inherently good.

And most humans would stop and help if they came across someone in need.

We just don’t read about it in the media as often as we read depressing doomsday headlines and people complaining on social media. Hearing the phrase “restored my faith in humanity” over and over doesn’t help either.

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This story is proof that people are inherently good and that one’s faith need not be restored in humanity because it should have never wavered in the first place.

People have always been good and they always will be good.

This story starts with a kind soul named Lisa Lemming Jackson. According to Woman’s World, Jackson works at a senior home care center in Georgia. So, she has an intuition for the needs of elderly people.

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She was shopping at a Kroger in Rome, Georgia when her intuition started going off.

Jackson smiled at an elderly man as he passed her by in one of the store aisles.

There was something in the man’s eyes that showed that he neededsome help. So, Jackson took the time to inquire.

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It was then that the man began to tear up with shame and embarrassment.

Jackson shared her story on Facebook.

“Just spent 2 hours with an elderly man at Kroger. It started with me just smiling at him, making eye contact. As I walked past him he looked like he needed something. she wrote in her post,” she wrote in her Facebook post.

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“I went back and asked him if I could help him. Tears welled up in his eyes and he said, ‘I have colon cancer and I have had a really bad accident, if I get up out of this cart everyone will know. What should I do?'”

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Jackson was heartbroken to see this man in such pain.

Thankfully she and the staff at Kroger were ready to step in and help.

The staff immediately went to work getting the man what he needed to clean himself up. They even gave him some dry clothes to wear so that he could feel comfortable.

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“The look of his dignity lost left me with a lump in my throat. From that moment on, Kroger staff quickly fetched us wipes, undergarments and discreetly took him to their employer bathroom Area where he was given clothes. He cried and apologized. He said he had to hurry his wife was at home alone,” Jackson explained.

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While the man felt his government and the country he laid his life down for failed him, he was overjoyed that his fellow humans hadn’t.

“When we walked to the register we found his groceries all bagged and somehow paid for. He cried harder. He said he fought in Vietnam and Korean War and loved his country, but up until today, he said he thought his country forgot about him,” Jackson wrote.

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Jackson and the man then shared a beautiful moment together where they were both able to connect with each other.

That’s when the man the returned the favor and left Jackson with a prize of her own.

“We both cried and I shared with him my own struggles and fears… He gave me words of wisdom and encouraged me that maybe after all, humanity still does care about one another.

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“Today proved it. Thank you Elmer, thank you Kroger and thank you God for the lesson and reminder I received today.”

Jackson’s Facebook post eventually went viral and was shared more than 56,000 times. You can see her original post below.

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Just spent 2 hrs with a elderly man at Kroger. It started with me just smiling at him , making eye contact …. As I…

Posted by Lisa Lemming Jackson onFriday, August 5, 2016

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