Everyday Hero Stories

Where did your values come from?

We've all had people in our lives who have made a positive impact on us. A parent or grandparent, a sibling who was there for us, or maybe even just a guy who shines shoes for a living? Whoever they are, tell us their story so they can inspire us even more.

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DEVOTION
FRIENDSHIP Friendship Friendship is to make a promise that you can believe one another. Friends can give you hope for your talents and dreams. My best friend told lies around the school saying that she went with a lot of people. So I just told her let it go because no one believes it. That’s why it is important to...
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LIVE LIFE
LIVE YOUR LIFE Once a upon a time there were two sisters named Keisha and Tasha, Tasha was the one that was brave and loved life; Keisha, on the other hand was afraid to live life and explore like Tasha. One day they both went to Kings Dominion to ride rides. Tasha was having fun but Keisha was not; Tasha made her ride this...
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FORGIVENESS
MY FRIEND AND I One day my friend and I were at school. We were having a good time until she was talking about me. She said I was short. I was very sad. I came to her and said, "why were you talking about me?" She said she wasn’t. I told her that saw you and heard you. She said she was sorry. She said, "do you forgive me?", I...
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CARING
HAZE W ACHIEVEMENT Achievement is something you have to earn in life. You have to go to school to achieve your goals in life. You have to study in life or you won’t be successful, it is hard, but you cannot give up on yourself. Sometimes things will get tough but you will find a way out of it. It may take some time,...
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FORGIVENESS
FRIENDSHIP AND FORGIVENESS Sometimes you have to forgive people for their mistakes. A long time ago, my friend Jessica betrayed me. She started hanging out with some girls that were really mean to me. Every day I would walk up to her and say hello and she would ignore me. One day these girls starting saying very mean things about me and...
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HONESTY
THE TIME THAT I WAS HONEST Honesty One day I went to school sad. I was down the whole day and my teachers and friends kept on asking me what was wrong. I kept on telling all of them that I was okay but deep down inside something was wrong. I was down the whole day when I was in fourth grade because the night before my great grandfather...
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STRENGTH
BROOK P 14 yr old Brook Peters- decided at age 11 to shoot a documentary about the school/kids and educators affected by 9/11-that has now (finished this past Spring 3 yrs later) gone into the education system recently premiering at The Tribeca Film Festival Family Day and on PBS in NY and NJ & in Israel on Prime time....
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CARING
MUMMA S I’m only 17 years old but I sure have been through a lot in my life and through everything, there has always been that one person to get me through it all; my hero. My mom is my hero. She has gone through family tragedies, business complications, and the hardest of them all, a messy divorce after 27 years of...
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LIVE YOUR DREAMS
CRAIG S Craig is my 26 year old adopted son who was born with parental cocaine exposure. When he was seven years old he was mauled by a baby badger. He lost one eye, seven fingers (three on the left, four on the right), all of his teeth, and suffered scratches on his hairless chest. He just received his GED and will soon...
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DETERMINATION
HAYDEN W My uncle is my hero. In 1995, he got in a motorcycle accident and lost his right arm and had extensive damage to his right leg. Thankfully, he is left handed. He was always into artistic furnishings, which included building and designing any and everything you can think of made with wood. Through all his...
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INSPIRATION
AN AWAKENING Some time ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and reacted in the way most people would. First thing came to mind was a "death sentence". However, I found out later it was truly "an awakening" for me; especially after being diagnosed with "colon cancer" a few years later, but still alive to tell about them...
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CHARITY
CANS FOR KIDS VINCE STONE,a retired salesman, who now works part-time at one of the ten convenience centers in Wise County Virginia, where he lives. A convenience center is where people throw away everything from garbage to old tires. Vince noticed that most people were throwing away aluminum cans mixed in with their garbage....
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TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
BESSIE "MA KELLY" K My grandmother used to own a restaurant when I was younger. She had about 16 kids herself and never had much money but when the opportunity came for her to work for herself she did. She was a strong Christian woman. All of her food was southern home-cooked food and she would set it up as a buffet for her...
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LOVE
DIANE W My mom is my hero. She does everything she can to give me food, have a car and get me to school on time :p She has a fun job but the pay is bad but she keeps on smiling!
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LOVE
MARY C Our hero is one that inspires all that know of her. Mary went above and beyond when she so lovingly donated her kidney to save my 3yr old sons life. Mary was Dominik's life saving hero and today our family is 'living' life to the fullest with our beautiful boy by our side. We are so very grateful for her heroism...
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LOYALTY
LOYALTY EVERTRUE I've always maintained loyalty in my relation-ships. 'To err is human,' still, loyalty requires absolute infallibility. IF ever in doubt, realize how you want others to treat you and how greatly your actions impact others. Silence is golden.
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COURTESY
COMPASSION THAT LEADS TO SOLACE 5 years ago, as my wife lay dying in her bed from cancer, we made the hard choice of allowing hospice to inject her with the final dose of morphine that would leave her unconscious until she passed. Knowing that she had no control over her ability to be a mother to her only son, she fought diligently to stay...
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COURAGE
KIDS WITH CANCER I work at a children's hospital. Every day I deliver medications to the oncology ward. Here are these brave kids. Throughout numerous rounds of chemotherapy, sometimes unbelievable amounts of pills to take every day, and even some who cannot feel the touch of another person's skin because their immune systems are...
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COURAGE
HAROLD H He's my brother and he has Lou Gehrig's Disease. He's had it for 28 years and is still going. He never gives up and awakens everyday with a smile on his face. He cannot do anything for himself and has caregivers. He once told me the 3 things in his life that inspire him are his family, his faith and taking one...
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LOVE
CHRISTOPHER C I’ve been through a lot in the past year and thinking back on how I got through it all brings up a specific name, Christopher Chang. He was the best friend I wouldn’t want to live without, and the hero who saved me. I turned to him when I needed help and I would find him waiting for me to ask. Though our journey...
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COURAGE
VIRGINIA J Virginia Jacko was a senior financial executive reporting directly to the President and Provost of Purdue University in the mid 1990s when she slowly but surely went blind from a condition called retinitis pigmentosa. She continued working for some time at Purdue, where her husband Bob is a full professor, but by...
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ENCOURAGEMENT
ARDIS W My hero is my grandma. She has always been there even when I was a baby. My grandma has always encouraged me to believe in myself and do my best. My grandma now lives in Stevens Point so now I can see her more often. My grandma encourages me to graduate from high school and do my homework. I love my grandma.
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COMMITMENT
DARON J One of my older brothers is my hero. Even though he is a pain in the butt and sometimes a jerk he is the one I look up to the most in my life; and he is the one I call my best friend. When he was 17 and it was his summer before his senior year instead of doing what most teenagers would do he decided to join the...
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STRENGTH
AMY S When I think about the person that has changed my life for the better only one person comes to my mind. My twenty-one year old aunt is an inspiration for me. It wasn’t always like that unfortunately. Being only three years older than me made us the best of friends. Even with my many siblings I still consider her...
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LOVE
ANONYMOUS My hero is my Dad. He is always there for me, even when I make a mistake. Like the time that I almost drove the car into the front door of our house; I had my drivers permit and he was telling me to stop and I did just in time. I know my Dad loves me because his actions show it when he makes sure that I have a...
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COMPASSION
CATHY C She loves me unconditionally, she will always support me, and she cares for me forever. My hero is my mom. She has been by my side since I was born, 17 years ago, 3 months premature. By some miracle I managed to survive with no major complications. And she was by my side the entire time. When I was three, I...
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CARING
TIM J Around Christmas, our family used to always go to church together. We would all get dressed up and go on Christmas Eve. It was always me, my 2 sisters, my parents, and my grandpa who always came to stay with us. We would all sit through church and then on the way out one night I asked where my dad was as we were...
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LOVE
DEBBIE C When I think about what I want to be like when I get older, I always think of my mom. She is the strongest, most loving, honest, caring, incredible person I know. She is the person I go to first when I have a problem. The person I talk to about my worries, my thoughts, my questions, my problems and much more. I...
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COMMITMENT
BILL K My father is hands down my hero. I have always been dad’s little girl. About two years ago my dad was horrifically burned in a shed fire when he was on the roof. The burns affected over 30% of his body including his hands, forearms and legs. I have never seen my dad in so much pain. He was in the hospital for...
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DETERMINATION
RED HOT SECONDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE I live in Egypt and am 44 years old. I remember that day as if it is now, 25th of Jan 2011. It was when I decided that I would not go for protesting demonstrations in an era where every single fact and snapshot in our Country states that the probability of me coming back to my kids is in fact really limited. An...
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CONFIDENCE
I LEARNED IT FROM THE BRUISES When I was younger I got into many fights, some lost others won. I went to a city school, the area wasn't the best or the wealthiest. Many nights I would go home and nurse my many bumps, scrapes, gnashes, and bruises. My best companion was a walkman that had a CD by Lil Wayne in it, which I would listen to as I...
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COMPASSION
GABE H My hero is my uncle Gabe. He just passed away this last spring; he was only 35 years old. He was always a caring, determined and fun person. At all the family get togethers he was always the life of the party and made everything we did into something exciting. I never really had a real father figure besides him;...
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HOPE
HERE I AM 'HERE I AM' Standing in the doorway, waiting in the dark with tears in my eyes, waiting to escape,I close my eyes, I see your face I can almost feel your touch I need you so much.But then I wake and realize it was all just a dream. Here I am, standing in the doorway waiting in the dark, as I turn to walk away I...
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