$1.6M Raised to Help Struggling 88-Year-Old Army Vet Retire

More than $1.6 million has been raised to help a struggling Army veteran retire from his full-time job at a Michigan grocery store after thousands of strangers responded to his story online.

Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer told NBC News that he connected with Ed Bambas, 88, earlier this week after he “received a comment on Facebook.”

“I knew nothing about him,” Weidenhofer said in a Thursday phone interview with the outlet.

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