When an 86-Year Old Woodstock Man Fell on His Porch, a Postal Worker Came to His Rescue

Linda Wu delivers the mail faithfully on her United States Postal Service route in Cherokee County, but recently she delivered something more to David Burke.

Burke, 86, who suffered a serious back injury several years ago, stepped out of his front door in Woodstock last week and fell backwards onto the floor of his home’s porch.

“If I fall, I’m not getting up,” Burke says.

With his wife, Liz, visiting friends out of town, Burke was alone, and he knew he was in trouble.

“If I had lain there with no one to help, I don’t what might have happened to me,” he said.

Fortunately for Burke, his residence on a quiet cul-de-sac is on Linda Wu’s mail route. When she drove up a few minutes later, she knew what to do.