GOLDEN WINGS
When my mother went back to college when I was eight, both my grandparents stepped in to help out. Being raise by four parents is something I would highly suggest for anyone. My grandfather stepped into the role of father many times, and even helping me learn my dance routines. He'd even get me up early before...
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TRUE LOVE BEGINS...
She sits thinking, waiting, wondering, anticipating... She turns and he is there. He looks at her with eyes that know she is his soul-mate, the one that makes his life worth living, the miracle that saved him in this life. She turns and smiles, her face lights the way as he anticipates her words, touch and...
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TROUBLES AND TRIUMPH
We hope our journey will encourage other families to have hope and push through times of trouble.
Our family has faced many obstacles over the past few years. After the economy took a turn, my parents lost their small business in Ft. Myers Florida, lost their home and even had a car repossessed. We...
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THE JOURNEY BETWEEN LIVING AND DYING.
The journey between living and dying .
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There is a great deal of different journeys from time to time with man to man and each journey has its anecdote . All the journeys may not be bitter and all the journeys may not be...
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TASHA H
I nominate my mother. She published her first book. It is called What Makes You Great? She has helped me and my brother in so many ways. She has raised us by herself. My brother was accepted into college at the age of 13. I am on the honor. Although we have had some hard times because of money, my mom has always...
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CHALLENGE YOURSELF
I recently went bungee jumping. So far the people I have showed the pictures and video of my jump to have looked at me with incredulous and worried looks to say the least. Most have not really had the nerve to say it to my face but I read it in their expressions, they all think I am crazy, especially those that...
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DAVID S
My hero is my brother David. He is my hero because during high school he was able to overcome much adversity. He had friends whom he thought were his friends, but would make fun of him to the point where he did not feel welcome anymore. At this time I was going to youth group at our church and he wasn't so I...
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THE WIDOWMAKER
The Widowmaker
It's a delicious, diamondiferous, defrosted Dogwood day. Sunbeams laser a crystalline blue April sky. A low-hanging stratum of crisp, steamy mist crowns the crest of the mountain like a white bridal veil. Dozens of ski tracks scar the deep-...
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TAKESHI Y
My son is my hero. He is the fourth generation of our family to be born with a serious mental illness, Bipolar II disorder. In addition, he is challenged by multiple learning disabilities. He was initially denied special education from our school district, and struggled to achieve despite having no...
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AFGHAN DILEMMA
AFGHAN DILEMMA
I sat in the back row of the rusty, creaking Japanese minibus as we bounced our way across the bleak Afghan desert from Kandahar to Kabul. In front of and next to me, their heads brushing the roof, were seven Afghan tribesmen, complete with ancient carbines and crossed bandoliers.
They...
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ANTONIO S
Well, my hero is is a true connoisseur of the heart. One image that sticks in my mind is when one day we were riding on the bus. The driver made a stop and I thought it odd that someone was waiting to get in at the back entrance. Before i could realize what had happened Tony jumped out of his seat to guide the...
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THE SHIRE LIFESTYLE
I am 15 years old and I have clinical depression. It makes every day seem impossible and I have no support, no one to encourage me to try and get better. I'm a big LOTR fan and one day I was having my usual marathon, only this time I wasn't with friends and therefore wasn't distracted. I could take in all of the...
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EDIE W
Edie Windsor is my hero because she challenged DOMA and won. For 44 years, she loved one woman with only her love for her mate being the bond between them. She had no license, just their love for each other. She loved as I have for 35 years. She has made it legal for me to marry the woman that I love. ...
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JERRY C
Advocate. Cystic fibrosis. Hero. Leader. Relentless. Hopeful. All of these words have one thing in common; they can be used to describe Jerry Cahill, a man who lives and succeeds in spite of his medical limitations.
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of 11, Jerry’s life was changed irrevocably....
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A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY
when i was little, in 3rd through 5th grade, i had bullies teasing me constantly. at this age, it was 'dumb' to play magic games, although i loved to pretend i could create the leaf tornadoes that sometime swirled up in the mini courtyard next to the music room. still, kids would come and throw sticks at me and...
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THERESE L
My Aunt Therese is a cancer survivor and an incredible support to me. I have mental health issues, and although it is sometimes difficult to be nice to me lol she has always stood by my side and loves me anyways; taking me to lunch spending time with me, buying me gifts of inspiration and books around cats that...
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THE COMPASSIONATE YOUNG BOY
Once upon a time, in a small village in Kenya, there lived a young boy with his step family. Due to the scarcity of water in the village, the young boy awoke early every morning, carried his pot and headed for the stream with the aim of fetching water for himself and his step family. Sadly for him, he alone had...
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MONICA C
My hero is a loving and kind person, she loves to help people. She lives in chronic pain yet she still makes sure that there's food in the house. When she was thirty-four years old she adopted a two year old girl, her cousin by blood her daughter by love.
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TEACHER LOOKED OUT FOR ME
In 1999, I was in year 9 at school, the year before starting GCSE's... I was about 14 at the time, and shy, quiet and a target for bullies everywhere. My art teacher had taught both my older brothers before me, and was a friend of the family because of this. I had been reaching the end of yet another few weeks of...
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MARY ANN W
My hero is my mother, who became a single mother to my six siblings and me when I was 11 years old. Determined to give us the best life possible. my mother moved us from Chicago to her home state of Arkansas. With only a high school education and some college, she took a minimum wage job at a local television...
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"GOD BLESS MY "COOKIES" "
Today I receive a "sweet" letter from one of my "cookies". You see when I taught kindergarten, I called all my sweet children "cookies".Brianna said that everyday she would walk into kindergarten and see a smile on my face. It wasn't difficult to have a smile on my face because every day I was going...
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CLAUDE M
My hero is my husband. Without his support and encouragement, I would have never gone back to school in my 40's. He has worked extra long hours at work, gone in on his days off, and stayed later hours often, so that I wouldn't have to get a job and could concentrate on school. Times have been hard sometimes,...
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MIRACLE HAPPENS EVERYDAY
I have two daughters that inspire me to work and work.Am a single mom and I need to earn exra financial income to send my daughters to decent schools. Now they have graduated. I say its a miracle everyday because I didn't get sick. I was able to do whatever was needed in my workplace at the same time my...
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"FRECKLES AND WRINKLES"
I just read a story about a little girl who was made fun of because she had freckles. She was holding hands with her Grandma and her Grandma heard the other child say "Oh , you have "ugly" freckles. The little girl was near tears , but the Grandma instead of reprimanding the other child , said "Oh...
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DAD P
He had battled dragons, giant snakes and man eating dinosaurs. He had the battle experience of a general in the army, a master of every weapon available to man and a skilled pilot. He was invincible and always lived to fight another day. He had faced death countless times, yet knew no fear, until today.
Jed was...
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TOM K
Would You Recognize Greatness?
One summer day a player sweated all alone in a gymnasium long snapping footballs from the half court circle on the basketball court to a target hanging on the wall underneath the basket. No one in that community had ever seen a player do that before.
A couple weeks later the...
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SERGEANT MAJOR EARL C
At 22, he was still an Olympic wrestler in 1972. Now known as Sergeant Major Earl Combs, he has come a long way since then.
A couple of months ago, Eye of The Tiger News team interviewed him about the Soviet War. Combs was in the military at the time, but was currently a wrestler in the Olympics. While /he was...
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FRIENDSHIP
One day, I was going to class and saw that somebody was getting bullied by several other kids. When I went to go help them, she said she didn't have many friends so I told her my name. She was so happy to have a friend and now we are the very best of friends!
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OUR JACARANDA TREE
Our Jacaranda Tree
By Olehile Thataone
As children we spent our holidays on the farm, both summer and winter. Being farm boys, we helped around with farm chores, like working the cattle and goats. We spent our time during hot summer afternoons, swimming in the water pans or in the farm dam. It was a typical...
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LOVE - ITS CHANGING FORMS
How do I describe love? Is it the feeling of looking into someone's eyes and wanting to be theirs forever? Is it the feeling that wants you to spend rest of your life with someone? Or is it the feeling of seeing beauty all around you in your normal days?
When I was a teenager, to me love meant the typical...
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GABRIEL L
Finding out I was pregnant in 2008 was one of the greatest moments of my life...until after the first ultrasound, when the doctor told me, "There may be a problem." Those are the scariest words any expecting mother can hear.
My son, Gabriel, was born with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. ...
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MY SKILLS TO ANOTHER
When I was thirteen years old, I became very interested in shopping and making purchases from eBay. I would do all the browsing around and then when there was something I found that I wanted, I would ask for the help of my Dad to place bids and make purchases. After a while being just a buyer wasn’t doing it for...
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JAMIE H
Jamie Holmes is a great example of a caring individual of an unsung hero and my nominee for the Values everyday hero of the month contest, because of her unselfishness, and endless energy to help others, while at the same time overcoming her own medical obstacles in her own life.
I first met Jamie in August of...
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