Cheerios Boxes Feature Veteran with a Disability

A friend sent us the following. We like hearing this kind of thing. We wish for more such stories.

Cheerios Boxes Feature Disabled Vet.   In continuing coverage, the Mobile (AL) Press-Register (3/17, Hayes) said disabled veteran “Patrick Peterson – a three-time gold medal winner in weightlifting and wheel chair racing – is featured on 3 million boxes of Cheerios cereal. General Mills, however, got Peterson’s hometown wrong,” listing “it as Fairhope, Alaska, not Alabama.” But the “mild-mannered Peterson,” who won three gold medals at the 2008 National Veterans Wheelchair Games “is not discouraged easily,” saying, “For me to call and fuss and have them take me completely off,” was not necessary. The AP (3/17), which published a similar story, noted that the cereal boxes “will be sold at military commissaries, canteens” and Veterans Affairs hospitals.

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