3. TIL A Texas dad sold his business and built a $51 million amusement park for his...

TIL A Texas dad sold his business and built a $51 million amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for everyone with special needs. Morgan's wonderland has had more than a million visitors since it opened, and one-third of it's staff includes people with special needs.

My mom used to run a sort of clubhouse for people with acquired/traumatic brain injury in San Antonio. We talked with the people at Morgan's Wonderland a few times about discounts for the members, some of which were wheelchair bound and very special needs.

They refused us even discounts on ticket packages because, as they so elegantly put it, our members didn't look special needs enough. They wanted to help people that looked, for lack of a better word, retarded. Because our guys weren't all drooling all over themselves, or they could semi function alone, they couldn't get discounted tickets.

Morgan's Wonderland is a great place for people that need it. But Gordon Hartman and the rest of the heads of their staff seemed like, at least to us, they were in it so people would see how magnanimous they were.

It's like they were doing so the right things for all the wrong reasons.

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