Military Spouse Thank You
Saying Thank You to the Military Spouse
When the topic of military divorce comes up, due to the controversial issues of the USFSPA, discussions often seem unappreciative of the role the military spouse.
However, these individual opinions do not necessarily represent the majority. There are many in our country that empathize, sympathize, and admire the role of the military spouse and show acts of appreciation toward military families.
In 2012, not only was military spouse, Ada Xochitl Edwards, thanked for her family’s contribution to our country, but she had the grace to try and find a way to say, “Your Welcome.”
On February 29, 2012, in an “extraordinary act of generosity,” someone anonymously paid the $1,197.03 bill for replacing Ada Xochitl Edwards’ four tires on her Lexus car. Unable to reach the anonymous donor, she wrote publicly to The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN about this extraordinary act of generosity.
While Edwards often hears the words, “Thank you for your husband’s service,” or, “I don’t understand how you [re: the military spouse] do it,” she was “deeply touched and humbled by this overwhelming act of kindness.
In tough times, we need to remember there are people out there who recognize the efforts of military families and want to say, “Thank You.”
Update: This generosity was given to a military spouse whose husband was away serving in Afghanistan.
God Bless the Military Wife
~ It can never hurt to say, “Thank you” to a military spouse.
My husband is retired from the Army after 23 years of enlisted service! He is my hero.
I would like to say THANK YOU to the person who chose to help out a military spouse in need. I realize that maybe this person could have looked for a more deserving person but we all need help at one point in time. This generous person was here at this time for this spouse.
As a military spouse I have worked many long hours to help other military family with the long deployments when the men were away ….. This helped me also to help someone in need and really it doesn’t matter if there HUSBANDS were enlisted or an officer.
THANK YOU kind sir or ma’am for helping this military spouse during a difficult time when her husband was deployed! It is wonderful to see that there are still kind people in this wonderful country that our husbands work so hard to defend!
And how about Mrs. Ada Xochitl Edwards paying it forward since she drives a Lexus and can well afford new tires. She should find someone who really needs help and then go help them in the same amount she was helped. Shame on her if she doesn’t do this.
I believe what really needs to be pointed out here is not the military spouse driving the Lexus but the idiot who choose to replace the tires on a military spouse’s Lexus instead of finding another military spouse driving around in some beat up old car who could really have used that help. That’s what is sad to me. All the idiot had to do was to go to the base commissary on the 1st or the 15th to see who really needed the help.
Appreciation should not be based on salary, rank, or spending habits.
You are right, it should be based on need and the military spouse driving the Lexus could well afford new tires for her car. Just think what that would have meant to an enlisted military member’s spouse who is trying to make ends meet on the meager little amount they are paid.
I say the good samaritan should have found someone who really needed the help. I guess they just couldn’t stand to see a Lexus with bad tires. Can’t have that happen now can we!