Ice Bucket Challenge & An Adventure For A 100 Year Old Veteran

October 4, 2022 5:05 am Published by

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? If you were on Facebook in 2014, you might have even participated in it. You’d be tagged by a friend to either drop a bucket of ice water on your head OR donate to the ALS Association (or both). The trend raised awareness of ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that impacts muscle movement. It also raised $115 million for the ALS Association. Now, 8 years later, the FDA has approved a new drug to treat the disease, after money raised through the challenge was used to fund a study of the drug. It’s still not clear how effective the drug is, but ALS patients have been eagerly awaiting its approval. All this, thanks to a viral Facebook challenge! 

 

A guy named Isaiah Garza does nice things for random people, and then posts the experience online.  This may be one of his best.  He took a 100-year-old war veteran to Disneyland, and the man loved every second of it.

The clip starts with Isaiah inviting him, and then it’s a montage of them on rides.  When he asks how his day went, the man says, “You don’t know how much I appreciate this.  I thought my life was over.  I’ll remember this for a long time.”

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer