150 million reasons to smile

Jet, Oct 20, 2003

150 MILLION REASONS TO SMILE: Danielle and Tirrell Moore joyfully discuss winning the $150 million jackpot in the Mega Millions multistate lottery at Shoney's Restaurant in Fitzgerald, GA. Tirrell Moore, an Army chemical decontamination specialist with the 520th Maintenance Company, and his wife, a helicopter electronic technician with C Company, 52nd Aviation Regiment, are stationed at Camp Humphries in South Korea, but bought the winning ticket while visiting family in Georgia. They chose to receive a lump sum payment of $88.9 million, and now plan to ask the Army for releases. The couple, both staff sergeants married in a civil ceremony eight years ago while stationed at Fort Drum, NY, plan to use some of their new fortune on a dream wedding.

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