Homeless Vet Receives Enormous Reward For Helping Stranded Woman – Plans To Help Others

I am so incredibly touched by this story…

A homeless veteran gave his last $20 to a stranded woman to help her pay for gas.

McClure, 27, started the GoFundMe campaignafter she ran into trouble on Interstate 95 and Johnny Bobbitt Jr., came to her rescue with his last $20.

Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, McClure said that she didn’t know what to do when she pulled over on the deserted highway just before midnight. ‘My heart was beating out of my chest.’

She phoned her boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, 38, and asked him to come and get her. It was then that Bobbitt Jr. emerged from the darkness and approached her car.

‘Ten minutes later,’ D’Amico said, ‘she called me and said the guy brought her gas.’

The former Marine veteran and EMT was concerned for her safety along the stretch of road and told her to lock the doors and stay in her car while he went to fetch the fuel.

McClure, who works for the New Jersey Department of Transportation said she didn’t have any money to repay him that night.

His generosity caught the eye of America… and he was greatly rewarded for it.

@ABC EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Johnny Bobbit reunites with the woman he helped, Kate McClure, how they’re paying it forward https://t.co/1zukDDIDil pic.twitter.com/ThwtcFZ08x

— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 26, 2017

Ohhh boy… who’s cutting onions?

What an amazing man.

According to this:

A homeless veteran who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars after he gave a woman, 27, his last $20 for gas, has revealed he plans to pay his donations forward.

Marine Corps vet Johnny Bobbitt said he’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by the generosity of strangers after Kate McClure’s fundraising campaign smashed its initial $10,000 target. Donations currently stand at more than $360,000 as money continues to pour in to help Bobbitt get back on his feet.

Bobbitt was reunited with McClure on Good Morning America on Sunday where he pledged to pay forward his donations to help others.
‘That’s how I got the money to start with, from other people,’ he said. ‘[I have to] return the favor. I can’t constantly take and not give back.’

‘This money was given to help me. Why not help other people in similar situations or people that are actively helping other people in different situations?’ he added. ‘Everybody out there is facing some kind of struggle, so if I can touch their life, the way mine was touched, [it’d be] an amazing feeling,’ Bobbitt said. ‘I want to feel the feeling on the opposite end.’

At a time when we’ve seen the most despicable of human evil…. it’s truly healing to see what kindness and generosity the human spirit is capable of.

Which points me to another thing…

Our Veterans give their lives for us. The fact that this kind, generous man was living on the streets after serving for our nation truly breaks my heart. It’s unacceptable. And for every story like this, there’s a hundred more with a not-so-happy ending.

We must do something to change this. We must take care of those who fought for us.