88 Year Old Army Vet Working

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I just finished reading the news story about an Army veteran, Ed Bambas, 88 years old and working full-time at a grocery store. An online influencer, Samuel Weidenhofer, shared a video of Ed (with permission), after the two were talking and Ed shared his story of why he was working at 88 years of age. He lost his pension from General Motors in 2012, after the company went bankrupt. His wife had an illness and when GM went bankrupt, he lost his health insurance and all but $10k of life insurance. Their savings, selling their home and other things is how they had to live and she receive her medical treatments. The influencer shared the video, and it went viral raising over $1M, so now Ed can have peace and retire again. This is a wonderful story and one that shows those entitled privileged, who claim people don't plan well. It just takes one event to domino effect someone's life. You don't wake up one morning saying, "gee, I think I'll get cancer and lose my pension, savings, home....." Love this happy ending for Ed. Edited due to grammar etc. Thank you Siri. Hate using a microphone.