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Our story for Monday’s
CBS Mornings show came from Gail, who wrote to me: “I love your segments and often have a lump in my throat at the end of them…”; then, she gave me a story idea. It led me to Boston because of this picture & the back story. Hear it Monday at 8am on CBS💛
When 8-year-old Myles Eckert gave $20 he found to a soldier at an Ohio Cracker Barrel, he never imagined what would happen next.
“I think being altruistic is like a reward for yourself,” Eckert, who inspired so many to pay it forward, tells Steve Hartman a decade later.