To the editor:
My name is Larry Southgate, and I live in Greenfield. Two Sundays ago, I went to Walmart to buy groceries. I was going to write a check for my items. As fate would have it, they asked for my ID. Well, a couple of days before, I had renewed my driver’s license, and they kept my old license, issuing me a paper license that did not have a complete number on it. So Walmart would not take it.
I am a U.S. Navy veteran. I showed them my Veterans Administration card, and they would not accept it. I showed them a check I wrote to them the week before, and that was a no.
A complete stranger standing behind me stepped up and said he would pay for my groceries. The cost was $61 and some change. I said I could not allow that, but he said, “Thank you for your service,” and he wanted to pay it. I asked him for his name and address so I could send his money back to him, and he said no, he wanted to pay and he again thanked me for my service.
This is really important to me because I have terminal cancer. I am on a fixed income, and money is tight. May God bless him for his act of kindness, and I will always remember that.
Larry Southgate
Greenfield
