Jim McIngvale, a Houston based businessman known as "Mattress Mack" because he owns a chain of furniture stores has sent 110 veterans to see the World Series ballgame on his own dime.
“We’re thrilled to send these people, these veterans, these warriors who have sacrificed so much for us to this great World Series game to see our Houston Astros,” McIngvale told Fox 5 news. The veterans came from Camp Hope, a program run by the PTSD Foundation of America.
McIngvale is well known around Houston for his philanthropy. After Hurricane Harvey, he turned his furniture stores into shelters for people who had been displaced from their homes. He also hosted a Thanksgiving dinner, at no charge, for 20,000 people.
“I never served, but I've seen the trauma that these guys have been through,” he said of the veterans he took to the World Series game, continuing, "it just gives all of us at Gallery Furniture great joy to help these veterans who have done so much while I did so little."