{"id":1222,"date":"2026-03-09T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:20:24","slug":"90-year-old-man-named-dillon-mccormick-was-rounding-up-shopping-carts-under-the-blazing-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/90-year-old-man-named-dillon-mccormick-was-rounding-up-shopping-carts-under-the-blazing-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"90-year-old man named Dillon McCormick was rounding up shopping carts under the blazing sun."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2023, Karen Swensen, a former news anchor, was doing her usual grocery shopping when something caught her attention.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Outside the store, a 90-year-old man named Dillon McCormick was rounding up shopping carts under the blazing sun.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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McCormick wasn\u2019t just any retiree. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran, still working a physically demanding job at an age when most people have long hung up their work shoes. He said he needed the income to get by.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Instead of walking past, Swensen decided to act. She set up a GoFundMe campaign sharing Dillon\u2019s story with the public.<\/div>\n
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The response was immediate. Within 24 hours, donations exceeded $222,000, coming from strangers across the United States.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The sudden support eased his financial stress, but it didn\u2019t change his mindset. McCormick remained committed to working, saying he had no intention of fully retiring.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In fact, he planned to donate a portion of the funds to his local church.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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His philosophy was simple and direct: \u201cIf you stop working, you will stop living.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A man\u2019s dedication, a stranger\u2019s compassion, and the generosity of hundreds of people came together to honor both work and purpose.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2023, Karen Swensen, a former news anchor, was doing her usual grocery shopping when something caught her attention. Outside the store, a 90-year-old man named Dillon McCormick was rounding up shopping carts under the blazing sun. McCormick wasn\u2019t just any retiree. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran, still working a physically demanding job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}