Disabled veteran was 'heartbroken' after losing his wallet filled with cash—then two strangers appeared on his porch
Some events can reinstate a person's faith in people's ability to be honest and kind. A disabled veteran who had lost his wallet was also quite surprised when two teens showed up at his doorstep with his wallet. The man, Marc Walsh, had lost his wallet with cash, credit cards and his military ID in the snow while walking outside. He was quite upset and thought that he wouldn't see his belongings or money again, before he saw his doorbell footage at one point, per Fox 2 News.
The sisters, Makyla and Makhia Vincent, 14, were walking to school in the snow on Detroit's West Side when they found the wallet. When they looked inside and found around $200 in cash and several cards, they knew it was important to the person who lost it. The girls thought of their grandpa, who was also a veteran and decided to return a wallet. "I read the veterans card and I was like, I would hate if that was my granddad and that happened to him, so I knew we had to return it," Makyla remarked. They saw the man's address and went to his doorstep to return the wallet. The veteran wasn't at home at that time, but he could see the sisters' faces through his security camera when he came back home.
Walsh was elated to have his wallet back, as he previously felt very helpless after losing it. "Really heartbroken, I really didn't know what to do." When he saw the wallet at his house and safe with all its belongings intact, it restored his faith in humanity. As the man couldn't thank the twin sisters at first, he hoped that he could find them with the help of the footage captured on his security camera. Fox 2 News also became a part of the search when the man called them for help. "All of a sudden, we were all over the news and people are saying thank you for turning it in and everything, it was great," Makhia pointed out.
They could all meet each other eventually and Walsh was determined to reward the sisters for their honesty. He gave them $200 in cash, per PEOPLE. "I’m so incredibly grateful, so grateful and humbled," the man told Fox 2 News. The sisters admitted that they were not really expecting a reward and just returned the wallet because they thought it was the right thing to do. They revealed that they planned to save most of the money and spend a little. "I feel really happy and grateful that I could help somebody because I know other people could have kept the money," Makyla remarked.
Many people choose to do the right thing in such situations. A struggling teen who returned a veteran's wallet with $2000 inside it is another example. The teen, Tommy O'Connor, knew that his family was struggling financially and didn't have money for lunch that day, per Local 12 News. But all he could worry about was that the money might be someone's rent and they wouldn't be able to pay it if they didn't find the wallet. He was able to trace the owner with the help of his mom and a teaching assistant. The grateful veteran gave him $50 as a reward.