In honor of D-Day, this week’s Feel-Good Friday is about an incredible veteran who teaches us a lot about longevity and what life should be about. Hat tip to my colleague Andrew Malcolm for this story.
In Metairie, Louisiana, Korea Air Force Veteran Dillon McCormick wrangles carts for the grocery store Winn Dixie, even in record-breaking heat. On Memorial Day, former local WWL-TV news anchor Karen Swensen (Ronquillo) saw McCormick hard at work and was highly curious. She turned on her journalism skills and found out his story:
If you ask Dillon McCormick what gets him out of bed every morning, he’ll tell you this, “I love working at Winn Dixie, I get to talk to more people. I try to be nice to them or polite to them really.”
For over two decades, he’s been greeting customers in Metairie with a shopping cart and a smile.
“It’s best to let people know that they’re shopping at a place…
