[Mishmash] The ultimate gift

[GALEHALLOCK at aol.com]

I'll try to make the as understandable as I  can.  It was a touching story 
from my area here.  I live 10 miles east  of Flint, Michigan.  Fenton, Michigan 
is 15 miles south of Flint.   Port Huron, Michigan is about 70 miles east of 
Flint on the Canadian  border.
 
Last Friday a tornado went through Fenton,  Michigan.  Lots of damage and as 
far as I know, no one was killed thank  god.  A man in Port Huron, Michigan 
heard of the damage done and jumped in  his pickup with a chain saw and some 
tools and drove the some 85 miles to Fenton  to help however he could.   He came 
across some people in Fenton with  a large tree blown down across their fence 
and against their house.  He  pulled his truck over and pulled out his chain 
saw and started helping  out.  They couldn't believe this was happening.  They 
asked him his  name and he wouldn't tell them.  Except to say his name was 
"Free" cuz  that's what he was.
 
A while later they were still cleaning up and  looked over and "Free" was on 
one knee trying to stand up and couldn't.  He  suddenly fell over right there 
in their yard.  And died!!  Of a heart  attack.  Helping people he didn't 
know.  People who didn't even live  close to him.  People who simply needed a 
helping hand.  
 
It wasn't until Sunday that they found out  "Free's" name.  I wish I'd have 
written it down from the TV report so I  could tell you his name.  Needless to 
say he's a hero to a family he didn't  know in Fenton, Michigan.   And his 
wife and 2 sons said he did these  acts of kindness any time he had the chance.  
He died doing what he loved  to do.  
 
Gale
 
 



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