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Elderly Man Gets Declined At Dollar Store. Then Cashier Changes Everything After Seeing His Hat

I love stories about random acts of kindness. They make me feel like the human race may still have some sparks of – well, humanity. Jacob Wittman is a cashier at a Dollar General store located in Sallisaw, Oklahoma.

One of his customers, an elderly gentleman, was having a hard time with his purchase because he couldn’t remember his PIN number for his credit card.

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A fellow customer tried to help a few times, but they didn’t have any luck. The man happened to be wearing a hat that said he was a veteran. The symbolism wasn’t lost on Jacob.

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Jacob pulled out his wallet and had it scanned. The purchase went through – on Jacob’s card. The whole story was posted on the LoveWhatMatters page by Tim McKellar, who was shopping at the Dollar General when it happened.