I don't like posting to forums but I felt this was too good not to share.
I live in SC and if you didn't know we recently suffered tremendous flooding resulting in quite a bit of damage and loss of life. One of my friends is a first responder in the area that was most affected by the flooding. In speaking with him he told me the ways they were struggling with some of the issues that come with flooding. We mobilized our efforts and began collecting water, food, and other essentials. One of the major issues he discussed with me, while strange, was foot issues. Wading through water trying to rescue people from their homes and vehicles yielded a number of foot related issues for rescuers.
That night during a particularly rewarding dismantling of Oryx I was discussing these issues. One of the gentlemen I was playing with chimed in and said he was a wholesaler of clothing items and he would be happy to donate socks if that would help. I contacted my friend and said it was exactly what they needed, but told me they had about 700 people in the field at any given time. I reported this to my fireteam member (I am intentionally leaving him nameless in case he doesn't want his name out there). He was completely unaffected by the size of this number and promptly sent me 1200 pairs of socks to help the efforts.
I don't know this man personally, although I've gamed with him frequently, but he jumped to the aid of someone else in need. This humanitarianism, born in Destiny, helps restore my faith in humanity and makes me appreciate the community that has formed here, especially the niche of phenomenal people I play with on a daily basis.
If anyone from Bungie reads this I would like to buy my friend a virtual beer (or at least the Carlton) please help me thank him for his kindness.
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Bump. That was amazing
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Hey neighbor! I'm in Columbia, SC! I've got a story for you from the flood, although not Destiny related it's on the same path. One of our friend's house was completely ruined as a result of the flood and needed help moving out of her place. So when my wife and I show up to help her (in the pouring rain) there was a guy there with a truck/trailer, there to help her as well. So, we get to talking while carrying her things and loading up his vehicle. And then more people showed up to help. We had 15 people to help our friend move out of her place. But here's what's special about it. I learned from this guy that he had "just met our friend today" and that he was spending his time and resources to help people like her. When he realized this was a bigger job for the amount of people we had, he reached out on twitter, and a local church saw this and sent over all these people to help! Point is, this guy bent over backwards and sacrificed his time, effort, resources, money and way of living to help people he had never met. We wouldn't have got the job done in twice the time without him, and we were all very grateful. Afterwords I asked for his card, and he was on his way to help another person.
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This is amazing.
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Awesome story faith in humanity restored.
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That's -blam!-in awesome
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Very nice
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Really positive and neat to see what our little community can do in a big world.
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Here, here. I was in the fire-team when this discussion happened, and it was just like Burly describes. It was my first run with most of the guys in that team, and I had totally forgotten about that until now. Good people both of you. Cheees!
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