A Minnesota veteran’s offer to sell or trade his hearing aids to help pay for a wheelchair-accessible van has gone viral, resulting in a communitywide spaghetti fundraiser and a GoFundMe page that’s gone viral. Gilbert Hoppe, who first made his request back in April, said he’s surprised by the attention that his post has received. The post showed a photo of the 75-year-old's hearing aids along with a handwritten note that read, “Pair of hearing aids. “The worst was probably the one that called him an idiot and said he couldn’t sell those hearing aids,” Kristi Bighley, who saw Hoppe’s post, told Kare 11. With his blessing, they set up a GoFundMe page and organized a fundraiser with karaoke and spaghetti.

Source: Fox News May 23, 2018 17:26 UTC