Illinois Family Invites Mailman To Thanksgiving After He Rescues Elderly Father Who Was Injured In A Fall

This is the kind of feel-good story we need this time of year. It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just a week away, but we're quickly approaching that one day a year when we can all gather around the table with our families, eat until we're stuffed, watch football all day and laugh when that one uncle gets too drunk and starts saying shit that would get him banned if he posted them on social media. Thanksgiving is just the best. And for one Chicago area family, their Thanksgiving table got a little bigger recently. According to NBC Chicago, it all started when US Postal Service worker Jaylen Lockhart was working his normal route delivering mail over the weekend. But when he looked in his rearview mirror, he saw an elderly man who was out walking his dog take a tumble. The man was Aurora, Illinois native Guy Miller, who was walking in his neighborhood with his dog, Bentley. And when he fell, Miller said the mailman got out of his truck to help: "I'm trying to get up at the same time and, Jaylen's telling me, 'Just stay down, just stay down, you might be hurt, and can't be walking anywhere.'" Lockhart was able to flag down some neighbors to wait with Miller, while he went to the man's home for help. Doorbell camera footage showed the postal worker approaching the house and letting a family member know what was going on with their loved one: "Is there an older gentleman out that lives here? He fell down the road there." After making sure that Miller was taken care of, Lockhart went back out to finish his postal route - but the elderly man's family wasn't able to get the mailman's name, so they took to social media for help: Well through the power of Facebook, the family was eventually able to track down Lockhart - and invite him and his family back to their home for Thanksgiving. According to Miller's wife Marcia: "I said, 'What are you doing for Thanksgiving? You have family? Yeah?' We said, 'We're family, definitely... Just really good to see kindness and compassion and care in the world...when you see so much on the news and so many labels put on this generation of them being into themselves and not caring." As for Lockhart, he says he didn't hesitate to help when he saw Miller in need because that was just the way he was raised: "I was raised that way. I was raised that way, my parents, my family. Just, you look out for others. You know in the state that the world is in today, just kindness and grace is all that anyone ever needs." The postal worker will not only have a newly-extended family around him next week for Thanksgiving, but he's also being recognized by the city of Aurora this week for looking out for his neighbor. And look, it's easy to be cynical and say that he was just doing what anybody would do in that situation, but the reality is that with the way the world is today, we know that those simple acts of kindness aren't near as common as they should be. But things would be a whole lot better if they were. https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1859119307071906282