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More than $1.7 million has been raised to help an Army veteran retire after his story went viral online and a GoFundMe drew thousands of donations from strangers.

Australian social media influencer Sam Weidenhofer first learned about Edmund Bambas, 88, from a comment on one of his videos. Weidenhofer then worked with influencer Mike McKinstry to track the veteran down at the Meijer supermarket in Brighton, Michigan, where he works, WXYZ Detroit reported.

“May I ask how old you are?” Weidenhofer asks in the video.

“I’m 88 years old,” Bambas responds.

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“Why do you have to keep working?” Weidenhofer asks.

Bambas, who served in the U.S. Army in 1966, explained that

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