A Jimmy John’s delivery man is being hailed as a hero after he went above and beyond to help a sick veteran.

It all started when Lisa Nagengast thought she was calling a social worker to help her brother Greg Holeman, a 48 year-old veteran who was recovering from spinal surgery. Instead, she accidentally called a Jimmy John’s shop in Columbus, Nebraska.

“The whole time I pretty much knew that she didn’t know she was talking to someone from Jimmy John’s. It didn’t seem important to really bring it up, but I just wanted to make sure that she knew I was going to help her,” explained Jason Voss, the night-shift manager at the Columbus Jimmy John’s.

Lisa had flown to the area to help her brother recover, but as soon as she landed back in Florida, she got a voicemail from him saying that he was in so much pain that he could not stand up.

Jason could not leave the store, so he sent Zach Hillmer, one of his drivers, to pick up Greg and take him to the hospital. When Zach called Lisa to get more information about her brother, she realized that she had not been talking to a social worker.

“I was kinda gracefully [trying to] back out of everything that had happened at that point,” she said. “He was like, ‘No no no, I will take him to the hospital. You give me his name and his address and make sure that he gets in the car with me, and I will get him where he needs to go.'”

Lisa could not have been more grateful to the Jimmy John’s workers for what they did.

“I cannot say thank you enough to Jason Voss and Zack (sic) Hillmer … there are not enough words to express my gratitude,” she wrote on Facebook.

“I’m famous for calling a wrong number, but Zach and Jason need to be famous because they did an amazing act of kindness,” Lisa later added.

“I’m awfully proud of those guys,” added Sam Nixon, the owner and operator of Columbus’ Jimmy John’s. “What they did, I could not teach.”

God bless Jason and Zach for doing whatever it took to help a veteran in need!

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