Wal-Mart and Afghanistan
2010-01-12 - by
My friend down in Columbia, Chris Neely, is a captain in the ‘Swamp Fox’ Field Artillery of the South Carolina National Guard.
And he just got called up.
My first thought – other than the obvious concern about danger – when he told me he’s going to be spending the next year in Afghanistan was, He’s got house payments to make and two children in school and how on earth is his wife going to make ends meet for a whole year?
So, I asked him, Look, I don’t want to pry into your business – but how are you going to get by financially?
He hesitated. Then said: It’s alright. The folks I work for are going to pay the difference between what I’ll make in the army and what I’d have made if I could stay here and keep working.
You seldom hear a kind word said about the folks Chris works for – but my estimation of Wal-Mart Corporation just took a quantum leap upwards.
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Wal-Mart and Afghanistan
2010-01-12/
My friend down in Columbia, Chris Neely, is a captain in the ‘Swamp Fox’ Field Artillery of the South Carolina National Guard.
And he just got called up.
My first thought – other than the obvious concern about danger – when he told me he’s going to be spending the next year in Afghanistan was, He’s got house payments to make and two children in school and how on earth is his wife going to make ends meet for a whole year?
So, I asked him, Look, I don’t want to pry into your business – but how are you going to get by financially?
He hesitated. Then said: It’s alright. The folks I work for are going to pay the difference between what I’ll make in the army and what I’d have made if I could stay here and keep working.
You seldom hear a kind word said about the folks Chris works for – but my estimation of Wal-Mart Corporation just took a quantum leap upwards.
Posted in General