Sergeant Jon Thompson, his wife Liz and young daughter Reese have had a rough past year as they lost their house to a fire last March on Fort Riley and shortly later Jon was deployed to Kuwait.

There hardships didn’t go unnoticed as General Motors and the Wish for our Heroes organization learned of the Thompson’s and planned a special surprise for them this past December during half time of the Army vs Navy football game.

“I was just told that I was supposed to show up to the game, shake some hands, smile, take some pictures and then all of the sudden this guy (Jon) is popping out of the truck behind me,” said Liz.

GM and Wish for our Heroes brought SGT Thompson home to surprise Liz and Reese during the halftime show.

After coming back to Fort Riley the Thompson’s went to Jim Clark Chevrolet and were able to pick out their new truck with all the options of their choice. After four months they took delivery Tuesday morning.

SGT Thompson said that the new truck is a tremendous blessing.

“It’s going to help a car payment go away. It’s going to help us kind of recover from some of the situations we were in in the past, and it’s going to be just a tremendous blessing to our family.”

Liz already has plans for the new truck.

“There’s going to be a lot of off-roading. There’s probably going to be a pool party in the back of the truck. We hunt and we haven’t had a truck for about five years so it’s huge,” said Liz.

You can watch the halftime presentation by clicking on this link.