In order for a 90-year-old Air Force veteran who was forced to work in order to pay his bills to retire, a former news reporter recently organized a fundraiser.

When the reporter saw him pushing carts in the 90°F humid weather in the parking lot of a grocery store in Louisiana, they decided to record it and the resultant video raised over $200,000 in donations.

Even though she had covered some incredible tales during her tenure as a news anchor in New Orleans,

Karen Swensen was taken aback when she noticed 90-year-old Dillon McCormick carrying trolleys in the Metairie store parking lot.

McCormick, a former member of the Air Force who served in Colorado and Greenland, informed Swensen that he took the job because he needed roughly $2,500 to make ends meet and was only receiving half of that amount from his Social Security checks.

When Swensen conducted interviews with other customers in the parking lot, they revealed that he had been a long-time employee and that he constantly rounded up shopping carts.

Swensen was moved and inspired to act after two men mentioned that they occasionally stopped to assist him.

He served in the US military as a veteran. It’s Memorial Day. It’s warm. Mr. McCormick is a member of the Silent Generation, having been born in 1933.

America, please allow us to be his voice. She stated, ‘We can accomplish this,’ in the opening of a GoFundMe with a $35,000 goal.

Private donations flowed in for two hundred grand in just one day; eventually, she had to turn off the donation button when the total surpassed $233,000.

Swensen stated in an update on the GoFundMe page, ‘The 90-year-old veteran will no longer have to push shopping carts in triple-digit heat to put food on his table.’

‘It will be his decision alone if he decides to keep working.’ ‘We will start the process of transferring the funds tomorrow. What a wonderful day is in store for him!