(source: Newschannel 5)
You know how they say the military creates a bond that lasts a lifetime? Here’s proof.
John David Miller is a retired Green Beret from northern Alabama. He’s been in kidney failure for years, had one kidney removed, managed on the other one, and then that one got sick too. And then cancer showed up and delayed everything another three years.
He needed a transplant. A fellow Green Beret named Mike Jenne posted in a private Facebook group for Army Special Forces guys, asking if anyone could donate.
Out of nowhere, a Green Beret Miller had never met called him up.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Miller said. “He said, ‘I’ve got your kidney.’ I didn’t know him from Adam’s cat.”
That donor, John Ross, waited through Miller’s cancer treatments, came up to Vanderbilt here in Nashville, and donated his kidney. When asked why he’d give an organ to a complete stranger, Ross kept it simple.
“He has zero. I have two. There’s nothing quite like the Green Berets.”
The surgery was a success. Two men who had never met are now brothers in a whole new way.
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