Spirit of Christmas alive and well

Last week, at 6 a.m., I was driving my wife to Rush University Medical Center. She is on an experimental study attempting to prevent her bone marrow disease from becoming leukemia. We were driving east on Route 120 east of Grayslake when my truck slipped off the road and ended up nose down in the ditch at the side of the road. I walk with a cane and couldn't get out of the truck in the heavy snow. No one was hurt and there was no damage to the truck. Within a minute, two young men in a pickup truck stopped to help. They climbed under my truck and dug out the snow with their hands and tried to push my truck. No luck! A second truck stopped and a man with a tow rope hooked my truck to his. An IDOT truck stopped and blocked the lane to protect my truck and the one towing me. With the help of this second truck and the two men from the first truck, they pulled us out of the ditch and onto the road. I tried to thank them, but they said that they were glad to have helped and they drove away.

I don't have their names, but I want them to know how they taught a Jewish couple about the spirit of Christmas.

Peter Ellison

Third Lake