Fallen Soldier’s Mom Realizes A Stranger Has Been Secretly Tending To Her Son's Grave

Jul 26, 2019

One Texas man has sprinkled a little bit of kindness onto a fallen soldier's grave. After Jake Reissig discovered the grass on a fallen U.S. Air Force staff sergeant's grave was turning brown from the drought the state was facing, he decided to water it. But what he didn't realize is how the soldier's family would react. 

Jake Reissig’s wife, Liz, was the love of his life. Jake's son, Roger, told CBS News, "She was beautiful to him." They had been married for 65 years when she tragically passed away in 2014. Since her death, Reissig made it apart of his daily routine to visit Liz's grave with one of the fresh-cut roses from her his garden. After Texas was hit with a severe drought, Jake began watering the grass on Liz's grave so it wouldn't turn brown as the other graves had.

According to the news station, one day when he was visiting the grave he noticed a woman crying at another plot.

Once Jake realized that the woman was crying at the tombstone of a fallen soldier, he decided to take things into his own hands and do something for the sergeant and his family. The 86-year-old began watering the soldier's grave, the fallen staff sergeant's name was Joseph Anthony Villasenor.

Speaking about his father, Roger told CBS News, "He's just a giving person." Roger had sometimes gone with his dad to water the lawn, "When I saw it -- I just couldn't believe it."

When Joseph’s family returned to his grave to pay tribute, they realized that it was being tended to by someone. The grass on the grave was green while all the others had remained brown. They connected the dots that it had been Jake who was watering it and the family was overcome with joy and gratitude. 

"They thought it was a miracle, they couldn't believe a stranger would do that for him,"  Roger said.

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