Naval Air Force veteran John Weigel, who considered suicide because of $139,000 in medical debt, offered Sen. Bernie Sanders his brown leather flight jacket on Monday to thank the Democratic presidential candidate for his help regaining health insurance and raising funds to cover medical bills.

„Thank you for rescuing me,“ Weigel, a 58-year-old who lives with Huntington‘s disease, told Sanders (I-Vt.) at a campaign rally in Carson City, Nevada.