[Milsurplus] Unexpected Kindness. OT

[Mike Morrow]

Peter wrote:

> I found a wallet once, was stuffed with hundreds.  Found an
> address that wasn't far away, walked it over.  The guy was
> super nasty and very threatening and demanded I stay while he
> counted the money then told me to get off his property. 

In 1971 I was on the USS Intrepid CVS-11 which was making a week-long port call in Copenhagen, Denmark. (War is Hell!)  A couple of shipmates and I had finished a hour's beer drinking and eating at a small downtown restaurant.  After we left and got almost a city block away, we heard someone yelling at us and waving something.  One of waiters was carrying my buddy's wallet with mil ID and Geneva Convention card and about $100 US and 500 Danish kroner.  My buddy had dropped it at the restaurant...the waiter went to the trouble of chasing us down and returning it completely intact.

We were absolutely amazed, and wondered how many other places in the world that would happen.  The waiter probably did not think his kindness would still be remembered 46 years later.

Mike / KK5F