Recognition for Kindness Towards Others
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Recognition for Kindness Towards Others
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Because my hands were tied a lot of the times
to help the kids in the Gulf War and to help
the kids in Cambodia I really wanted
to do something for them in Bosnia.
So I started raising money doing 50/50 draws
and stuff like that and we ended up buying this
milking cow. I had to phone my dad and go,
“Dad, I want to buy this war bride this
milking cow because she has these two kids
and unfortunately her husband got killed on
the wrong side of the border so they called
him a deserter.” So the government wouldn’t
support her. So she had nothing and she
was living in a mud and straw house,
right, and she was up behind our camp.
So we decided that we would take her on.
And the boys lifted up her house and they
put like a barn in underneath her house
and we bought her this cow.
We named it Jigger.
But I had to phone my dad.
I never bought a cow before in my life and
I didn’t want them to rip me off because
they thought well she doesn’t know.
We’re just going to give her a dried cow right?
So I phoned my dad and say okay and
he gave me some pointers so I didn’t look
like I didn’t know what I was doing
when I was buying this cow.
So we bought it and we got a good cow.
And the boys came with the big MLVW and
we’re shoving this cow up the ramp trying
to get it into the back of the truck.
And we took it to the lady and gave her this cow.
She was so happy so now she could sell her
milk and make butter and whatnot and
keep her family going. And so Jigger now
lived underneath her house.
And then we raised more money and
got her some chickens and made her a
chicken coop and stuff like that in her yard.
And then I went down to the orphanage in
Velika Kladusa, we call it VK and I wanted
to know if there was any children
that I could help. So there was a group home
there and Bayha, he was the guy who ran
the group home, he and his wife and he had
three young girls that had been severely
devastated by the Bosnian army and
I wanted to help them because nobody else
would have, right? So we raised money with
my 50/50 draws and stuff
and bought them clothes. We were able to
raise enough money to send one girl to
school so that one person in the family
would be educated and so that she could
help the family out to raise money and stuff.
And so we did that and then I checked
back because I was over there several times,
right and the girls were doing good every
time I came back and checked.
I just did stuff like that and it’s the kids that
get to me. The kids are so innocent now,
they get stuck in the war of adults right and
it’s not right. Someone needs to take care
of them. They are the world’s future, you know.
And I still have a hard time with all of this.
It doesn’t leave you. It doesn’t matter how
much therapy you do or whatever
it never leaves you, no.
I wanted to do something.
I wanted to make a difference to try and
help some people so I put all my time and
effort into doing that and everybody
in my squadron was, you know, all jumping in
to help and volunteering to help, you know,
all the time and we did it together.
I certainly didn’t do it all by myself that’s for sure.
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