A state-run veterans’ home in South Dakota received an unexpected windfall—a $1 million bequest from a Texas man with no apparent connection to the facility. Arlyn Reinert, an Air Force veteran, died in April at the age of 85 and left the proceeds of his life insurance policy and his estate to South Dakota’s Michael J. Fitzmaurice State Veterans Home, according to the Rapid City Journal. “We don't really have a lot of information about why he chose South Dakota,” said Aaron Pollard, who heads the state Department of Veteran Affairs. “We think he just kind of looked at the available options, and through the luck of the draw, he chose us.” Among Reinert’s possessions was “a map that listed all the veterans homes in the United States, and he had no connection as far as I could find that connected him to that one,” Texas veterans official Dempsey Malaney said. “There wasn’t even a pinhole or an ink mark or anything on it.”
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South Dakota Veterans’ Home Grateful but Baffled by $1M Gift
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A Texas man who has no apparent connection to the facility left the money in his will.
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