00:04donnie i have a cup of joy for you this morning tell me i'm going to tell you about james
00:08blair
00:09who is a navy vet who now works as a fuel mechanic for the john wayne airport in la okay
00:16he's worked
00:17there since 2006 despite hardly being able to walk from a pair of deteriorated deteriorated knees
00:25okay okay so while lucinda thackeray a woman was sitting on the plane and looking out her window
00:32and she's watching james out on the tarmac like struggling to walk around so she took a video
00:39and posted it online and said who is this man and how can we help him and of course the
00:46video went
00:46viral and a go fund me was started so having recently turned 64 james was not far from social
00:55security and uh like maybe like a military pension um but he can't retire yet as like his income goes
01:03to support his elderly mother's hospice care oh i know right oh my goodness so um he gets word of
01:13this go fund me and it's just the money is just coming in and james said i was speechless because
01:20i felt like the world showed up and i think in these times we need people like that so soon
01:26after uh the
01:27two strangers met yes and um lucinda was able to shake james's hand and hand him a check worth about
01:37174 000 he sent her a bouquet of flowers and addressed it to the angel um so update like blair
01:48hasn't retired just yet but he has used some of the cash to buy himself a new bed which is
01:54so
01:54important absolutely get comfortable so well done you know i love seeing strangers helping strangers
01:59strangers shout out to lucinda for for taking that step and helping out james
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