“While we look forward to seeing many patriotic friends at the NASCAR race in Richmond on Saturday, it is heartening to see ‘King’ Richard and Kyle Petty cheering up great heroes at the McGuire Veterans Medical Center.” -George Allen

Richard and Kyle Petty cheer up paralyzed vets
May 1, 2008
Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The smiles on the faces of the veterans in wheelchairs were unmistakably broad Thursday as they posed for pictures with NASCAR icon Richard Petty.

But the smiles coming from “The King” and son Kyle Petty were just as wide as the two leaders of Petty Enterprises paid a visit to McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

“It’s funny how every story you hear always ends on a high note,” Kyle Petty said as he signed autographs and posed for pictures with giddy patients, doctors, nurses and physical therapists. “They’re always overcoming something — “I made it over that mountain.’

“It’s not the type of story where you look at a guy and you feel sorry for him … because they don’t feel sorry for themselves, and they don’t want you to feel sorry for them.”

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