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[Ifeelwicked]

Just reported on our morning news - A thoughtful daughter requesting cards for her WWII Vet dad’s 96th birthday Dec. 30th, all his friends have passed away, said he received 50,000 cards from well-wishers! The news showed a room filled with crate after crate of neatly stacked cards. What a beautiful show of kindness and start to the new year❣️

[Kachina624]

I would consider 50,000 cards a major PIA.  That's a lot of garbage for a 96 year old to get rid of.

[nana59]

hope they were addressed to a post office box....i certainly wouldn't want 50,000 strangers to know my address......

[Ifeelwicked]

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@nana59 wrote:

hope they were addressed to a post office box....i certainly wouldn't want 50,000 strangers to know my address......

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His wonderful daughter set up a P.O.Box. You obviously aren’t very familiar with the internet. It takes about 1 minute to find out ANYONES address. We’re ALL there!

[Ifeelwicked]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I would consider 50,000 cards a major PIA.  That's a lot of garbage for a 96 year old to get rid of.

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Is that what you seriously took away from this human interest story?? Not one kind word. Wow. 🙄

[Mj12]

@IfeelwickedSuch a heartwarming story!  As you know Duane Sherman (a WW2 vet, Purple Heart recipient) - his daughter said he still looks forward to mail call every day.  He received cards from every state and 10 countries.  Wonderful gesture!

[Bird mama]

I think that is precious.  At any age, when you lose your peers or family that lived through the same experiences in life, it's gotta be a little lonely.  

[MorningLover]

Thanks for posting @Ifeelwicked. A Wonderful Story..

Duane Sherman still has shrapnel in his back from when a kamikaze plane slammed into the ship he served during World War II. He was a chief sonarman aboard the USS Lamson when he lost 30 shipmates during that action.

He’s a Purple Heart recipient and a proud veteran. But like any sailor before the days of mobile phones and internet, Sherman still likes to know what comes in the daily mail.

Now living in California, Sherman looks forward to mail call every day. So in early December, he kept asking his daughter what came in the mail that day. The war veteran kept looking for birthday cards to commemorate his upcoming 96th birthday. But day after day, no such greeting. Duane was feeling a bit down...“All my friends are gone,” he said.

His daughter turned to Facebook, hoping anyone would find it in their heart to send her father a birthday card. 

“We should all be very proud of their service and honor them in any way that we can,” she said, who insisted it was a gesture to thank her father for his service rather than merely a birthday greeting.

The gestures started pouring in by the tens of thousands .....50,000 birthday cards from people in all 50 states and 10 countries. 

For Sherman, it was Christmas, Veterans Day, his Birthday and New Year’s all rolled into one.

[nana59]

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@Ifeelwicked wrote:

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@nana59 wrote:

hope they were addressed to a post office box....i certainly wouldn't want 50,000 strangers to know my address......

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His wonderful daughter set up a P.O.Box. You obviously aren’t very familiar with the internet. It takes about 1 minute to find out ANYONES address. We’re ALL there!

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you obviously don't know me....i am very familiar with the internet...........

[butterfly123]

@Ifeelwicked @MorningLover

Thank you for the smile on my face. Bless this man and his daughter. Mr. Sherman probably looked at each address and every card sent was a treasure to him.