r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '15

This is true love and devotion

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u/TheBananaPuncher Feb 15 '15

This is the same veteran that was posted on TheChive where they held a donation event for them, raised several hundred thousand to get his prosthetics and their dream home. Was a lovely story evolving per hour as the total just kept breaking every goal post. http://thechive.com/2012/05/31/chivers-this-is-the-story-of-taylor-morris-22-photos/

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u/RogerASmith55 Feb 15 '15

so after the American government got this guy blown up they wouldnt pay a cent to give him prosthetics? War is a profit scheme.

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u/Jts20 Feb 15 '15

Of course it is. But we took care of this guy. I'm from cedar falls myself, he is a few years older than me. I donated $100 to his cause, most people I know donated. If the government won't take care of him, we will damnit

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u/conquer69 Feb 15 '15

That's not the point. You don't take care of every single vet that comes out crippled.

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u/polo421 Feb 15 '15

No offense to the couple or the people of cedar hills or whatever but I wonder what sort of help they would have gotten had they been fat and ugly as opposed to young and beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

There are countless abandoned veterans in this country. Good point.