Rest assured: The U.S. Navy serviceman who was looking for tickets to Saturday’s Nebraska-Texas football game is taken care of.

Following a front-page story in Wednesday’s Journal Star that said Keith Kemper was hoping to take his 4-year-old son to Saturday’s game — but couldn’t find tickets to the highly anticipated matchup — responses poured in.

The Journal Star received 21 phone calls and six e-mails from readers offering to part with their tickets so Kemper and his son could watch their first home game together.

The phone at the Kemper family’s home in St. Edward also was ringing off the hook for most of the morning, he reported.

So fear not: Thanks to Nebraskans’ giving spirits, Kemper and his son will be cheering on the Huskers live this weekend.

“It’s been amazing with people’s generosity,” said Kemper, who recently returned home from his fifth tour of duty in the Middle East.

“It’s just amazing.”

Many Husker fans were willing to give their tickets away for free. Others said they’d charge face value or less. All said a pair of tickets was a small price to pay for Kemper’s service to the country.

“It would be an honor and a privilege to give him my tickets,” said one caller. “His story totally touched me,” said another.

Wrote one reader: “My 14-year-old daughter wasn’t very happy with me for wanting to do this, but we discussed it and she agreed that neither one of us would feel right sitting in the stadium knowing that a veteran had wanted to go to the game and he wasn’t able to find tickets.”

And another: “(My wife and I) have been to many games. As much as we’d love to go, we’d love it better if Keith could take his son.”

Kemper issued a thank-you to all who offered to pitch in.

“I think we’ll have fun,” he said.

— Melissa Lee