‘Merica! Yup, some progressive folks don’t like her; some liberal folks think she’s not exceptional. Yet this story is a microcosm of our America, our united America.

Two firefighters go to a diner after a long 12-hour warehouse fire in New Jersey. The waitress, Liz Woodward, picks up the tab.

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But the story doesn’t stop there.

You see the waitresses father is paralyzed and lives in a wheelchair. She’s been trying to raise money to buy a wheelchair access van so that he can leave the house and attend family events.

[…] When Young and Hullings heard that Woodward started a GoFundMe campaign in December to pay for a wheelchair-accessible van for her paralyzed father, they wanted to help spread the word.

“Weddings, Funerals, Celebrations and Graduations … He’s missed them all,” a post on the GoFundMe page said. “Family picnics on 4th of July or out to park to watch fireworks (we’ve always watched them out of his hospital window). We’ve shared everything with him on cell phones in videos and photographs since he couldn’t get there.”

The GoFundMe page was originally hoping to raise $17,000. Now, after help from the firefighters, it has collected more than $60,000.

Young said they’ve been “sharing the word as much as possible.”

“We’re not just firefighters,” Hullings said to WPVI. “We’re also caring people, we want to be part of everybody’s life.”

“All I did was pay for their breakfast, and I didn’t think anything would come about it except they would leave with a smile,” Woodward told WPVI. (link)