How do you thank an ‘angel’?
On Tuesday, Jan. 23, my wife and I arrived at the Ramada Conference Center to celebrate our DUSTER Battalion’s 50th anniversary of its participation in the Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam. While eating dinner that evening at the hotel restaurant, an unidentified woman (angel) purchased our dinner in a quiet manner that the restaurant manager stated that “She did not want to be directly thanked.”
If I knew how to find that angel, I would give her a firm, brother-like, tender hug to say “thank you” for your thoughtfulness and kindness to this old soldier. At the time we all were there “just to do our jobs, and try to come home.”
So, as a substitute, I would like to send her a “mental hug” through this column, just to say “Thank you, angel.”
Mike and Ruth Stas, Lancaster
This story was originally published January 30, 2018 at 11:03 PM with the headline "How do you thank an ‘angel’?."