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Above and beyond: A stranger's mission to help a homeless war veteran

It was a typical Saturday morning for David McDonough as he was driving to work. As he was about to pull into the parking lot, he spotted two men pushing another man in his wheelchair up the hill.
From 11 Alive: 

"ATLANTA — It was a typical Saturday morning for David McDonough as he was driving to work. As he was about to pull into the parking lot, he spotted two men pushing another man in his wheelchair up the hill.

'I asked him where he was going. He said he was trying to get a ride downtown and that he didn't have any place to stay,' McDonough told 11Alive's Elwyn Lopez.

Lee Sailers, 70, told McDonough he was a homeless war veteran.

'It would've been great to have given him a ride up the hill but the idea that we've got, you know, got him potentially set for the rest of his life is unbelievable,' McDonough said." READ MORE