College student and Navy SEAL hopeful Walter Carr was preparing for his first job when his car broke down the night before. He scrambled to find a ride but nothing worked out. Desperate for the work, he knew that he had no choice but to walk there. Google Maps said it would take over 7 hours to get from his home to his new job. To get there bright and early, Walter started his 20-mile trip around midnight. What happened next was beyond what anyone would have expected.
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00:00 You don't hear enough about young people with that kind of determination in this country.
00:05 You're famous now.
00:06 What do you plan on doing?
00:07 Just go out and inspire more people.
00:09 Walter Carr of Homewood, Alabama, was getting ready to start his first day on the job, his
00:14 first job.
00:15 But the night before he started with that moving company, his car broke down.
00:19 So Walter started walking 20 miles to get there, starting at midnight.
00:24 He's a U.S. Marine hopeful.
00:25 He's hoping to make it to the military.
00:27 He walked throughout the early morning hours Friday because he needed and wanted the job
00:31 with Bellhop's moving company.
00:33 Now as he's walking, he gets approached by police officers because it's honestly the
00:39 middle of the night and it's dark and he's walking alone.
00:43 And so tell him police officer Mark Knighton was the first to encounter Walter.
00:49 He's like, where are you going?
00:51 I said, it's going to sound real crazy, but I'm actually heading to work.
00:54 And then at that point, Knighton took action.
00:56 So here's a cop who sees this kid walking and says, no, no, no, me and my colleague,
01:01 we're gonna buy you some breakfast and then we're gonna buy you some lunch to go.
01:05 And then we're gonna drop you off at a church because that's the safest place for us to
01:08 drop you off.
01:10 And then you'll figure it out from there.
01:11 Finally, he's dropped off at this church, but he's gotta keep walking.
01:15 He's not there yet.
01:16 He's not where he needs to be for his job.
01:18 So he starts walking.
01:19 And at that point, a different police officer who was notified about this whole situation
01:24 picks him up and drives him to the home where he's supposed to do the moving job.
01:29 So the homeowner is a woman by the name of Jenny Lamy.
01:38 She wanted to share this story on Facebook.
01:42 When we woke up on Sunday and read the post and heard about the story, just blown away.
01:52 Just the commitment, the resolve.
01:54 These are things that are just truly special.
01:58 And we felt nothing other than this is what we're about.
02:02 And we got to show gratitude.
02:03 Sounds like you walk a lot.
02:04 You're gonna do a lot of bellhop's jobs too.
02:05 So we as a team kind of got together last night and we're trying to think about, all
02:06 right, how can we get Walter to jobs?
02:07 He's got everything he needs to be a bellhop.
02:08 The one piece he's missing is a way to get there.
02:09 This is my car.
02:10 I'm gonna show you guys the car.
02:11 I'm gonna show you guys the car.
02:12 I'm gonna show you guys the car.
02:35 And I'm gonna show you guys the car.
03:03 This is it.
03:09 Right there, the family at the home he walked to all night long to help move.
03:14 You've changed all of our lives.
03:15 Walter, you have no idea how many lives you've changed and inspired.
03:19 You have no idea.
03:21 This story is amazing.
03:22 Based on what you just said alone, it would be amazing to be able to overcome and to see
03:28 progress displayed clearly.
03:30 This story speaks to the greatness of what America can be.
03:34 Here you have a young man who walks through the night 14 miles and is picked up, not accosted,
03:42 but picked up by police officers who care for him simply because he wants to honor his
03:48 commitment.
03:49 Every single role that was portrayed in this drama, in this real life drama, deserves the
03:55 greatest of credit.
03:57 It was Dennis Kimbrough who made this statement once.
04:00 Weak people do things that other people don't.
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