Via Daily Mail:
A homeless U.S. Army veteran witnessed a miracle on Monday: a millionaire traveling 1,000 miles to hand him the keys to a new car.
For Michigan businessman Bill Pulte, it was just another day at the office.
‘I’m trying to inspire the average American,’ he told DailyMailTV in New Orleans, explaining why he flew in from Detroit to make sure Horace Scott has a reliable set of wheels to get to his two jobs.
Scott, 59, served in the U.S. Army from 1979 to 1982 and is struggling to save enough money to move into his own apartment. Gretchen Smith, an Air Force veteran who founded a nonprofit called Code of Vets, found him in a transitional housing shelter and put him on Pulte’s radar.
Standing in a Post Office parking lot across the street from a car dealership – brought there by a retired colonel on a pretext, surprise-party-style – the unexpected generosity left Scott speechless.
‘Get outta here! Oh, man. What? Oh, man, I’m ecstatic!’ he said. ‘I don’t have words right now. This is heaven-sent.’
Pulte says he’s trying to change the way people think about charity, moving its center of gravity away from lumbering-dinosaur institutions and directly into people’s laptops and smartphones – all at the speed of Twitter.