Our Unsung Heroes and Heroines


   

3/20/10
4-year-old girl rescued (Ashland Daily Tidings) Circling a canyon behind lost 4 year old, Zoey's Curry County home Robert Crump, like hundreds of folks from across Oregon, headed into the woods to look for Zoey Dorsey, a 4-year-old who'd gone missing the day before. He was the lucky one to find here, Crump stepped carefully, glancing down at his feet to make sure of his footing. And there she was, right at his feet."She was so buried and camouflaged under the stickers and salal," he said. "I was circling around these bushes. I was very close to her and didn't realize it."

He gathered her up in her arms, she didn't make a peep and took her back through all the brambles and bushes where his wife wrapped her up warmly and the others called for the heliocopter with the basket. She wouldn't have lasted another night ...a happy ending to a very scarey story!....

Another hero, Robert and his wife, Peggy, as all the other volunteers, big thank yous to people like them who volunteer for needed moments like this....bravo!

3/7/10

Bus crash rescue workers hail boy as a hero (AP) Oscar Rodriguez,of Las Vegas, a bilingual fourth-grader hurt in an Arizona bus accident that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others translated from an ambulance stretcher for busy rescue workers as they hurried to set up a triage center, authorities said Saturday.

He was labeled a hero for helping firefighters and paramedics to communicate with the passenges on a bus traveling from central Mexico to Los Anges.....the whole story at the link

3/5/10
How 12-year-old girl saved her Chilean island from catastrophe t 6am last Saturday on an isolated Pacific island, there were few people around to notice as lobster fishing boats moored in the tiny harbour started to bob crazily and crash together. It was the first sign that the tsunami that followed the Chilean earthquake was soon to wreak terrible carnage on Robinson Crusoe Island and its tightly knit seaside fishing community.

After a tsunami early warning system failed, the island's only village was at the mercy of the waves. It took the intervention of one 12-year-old girl to save the majority of the 650 islanders. Martina Maturana, the daughter of the community's policeman, was at home when she felt a tremor, according to Chile's La Tercera newspaper. Her father was on the telephone to the mainland when Martina peered out of the window at the pitching boats and acted decisively. She ran 400 metres from her home to the town square to ring the emergency bell and rouse the fishing community from their sleep.

2/24/10
Teacher tackles gunman supected in school shooting Math teacher David Benke says he had no time to fear for his life when he tackled a man he said was preparing to reload a rifle to shoot students at a Colorado middle school who were heading home for the day.And Benke doesn't consider himself a hero for stopping the 32-year-old accused of wounding two students Tuesday at the Littleton school that's just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings."You know, it bugs me that he got another round off," Benke said of the two shots that authorities say Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood fired.On Tuesday, Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink praised Benke, calling him a hero. Benke, the father of 7-year-old twins and a 13-year-old girl, fought back tears after Mink thanked him.

2/11/10
Man Saves Stalled Van From Train

 

It was a scary scene at a traffic crossing near Buenos Aires, Argentina when a man was almost struck by a train. He managed to get a stalled van out of the way but had to quickly jump back behind the tracks when the train came zooming by. (Feb. 10)

2/2/10
Eustace Mullins Passes On OUR HERO... Legendary author of scores of books and pamphlets demolishing the lies of warmaking mainstream media, historian Eustace Mullins died Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the home of his caretaker in a small town in Texas. The author of such incendiary books as "Secrets of the Federal Reserve, "Murder by Injection, and "The Curse of Canaan, Mullins was harrassed by the FBI for almost a half century, and had one of his books burned in Germany in the 1950s. These stories are recounted in one of his books, "A Writ for Martyrs.

1/14/10
NYC Cabbie Returns $21K to Passenger Taxi driver Mohammad Asadujjaman says he was just following his mother's advice to always be honest when he went out of his way to find a passenger who left a handbag containing $21,000 in the back seat of his cab. The Bangladesh-born med student ended up making two 50-mile trips to Long Island to reunite his passenger, an Italian grandmother, with her cash, passport, and jewelery, the Guardian reports. "They were so, so, so happy," the 28-year-old cabbie said of his passenger and her family, whose vacation would have been ruined without his honesty. Asadujjaman says he was never tempted to keep the cash, and declined to accept a reward from the family, saying that he couldn't take it because he is a devout Muslim. "I'm needy but I'm not greedy," he said. "It's better to be honest."

12/19/09

Kansas Girl Says 'Superman' Hero Lifted Car Off Her Is Nick Harris "Superman"? His neighbor Ashlyn Hough sure thinks so, after Harris reportedly saved the girl by lifting a car off her. Harris was driving home after dropping his daughter off at school when he saw Ashlyn, 6, hit by a car that was backing out of a driveway. Ashlyn fell under the car, and Harris leaped to her rescue, according to Fox4KC.com."I just seen a child get hit, pushed into the street and rolled underneath the car," Harris told the TV station. "I grabbed the car, picked it up and pushed and moved it out of the way." He's not quite sure how he lifted theMercury sedan off the child.

11/5/09

After World Series win, Joe Girardi stops to help crashed motorist Guiding his team to its 27th World Series championship tells us little about the character of manager Joe Girardi.Especially when the feat is compared to what Girardi did after the party at Yankee Stadium ended.Police say Girardi stopped in the wee hours Thursday to help a motorist who crashed her car into a wall after losing control on the Cross Country Parkway in suburban Westchester County..the rest of the story at the link.

7/28/09

Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silenced Enraged by Taliban oppression Malalai Joya became a women’s rights activist, and after the US-led invasion, took on the new regime as an MP. But speaking out has come at a cost. She tells Johann Hari why death threats won’t stop her exposing ugly truths about Afghanistan.I am not sure how many more days I will be alive," Malalai Joya says quietly. But she says: "Dust has been thrown into the eyes of the world by your governments. You have not been told the truth. The situation now is as catastrophic as it was under the Taliban for women. Your governments have replaced the fundamentalist rule of the Taliban with another fundamentalist regime of warlords. [That is] what your soldiers are dying for." Instead of being liberated, she is on the brink of being killed.

6/25/09

Father Emil Kapaun This is the story of Father Emil Kapaun, who was the most highly decorated military chaplain in United States history. He started life on the family farm in Pilsen, Kansas. Most of his neighbors were immigrants who came to America from Bohemia. He grew up working on the farm, enjoyed life on the plains, and was a devout Catholic. He volunteered to be an Army chaplain, and soon after his training he was assigned to Burma and India. He went wherever he was needed, traveling thousands of miles per month, serving Mass in mess tents, native villages, or even on the hood of a jeep. He was discharged along with most of the military in 1946 at the end of the war, but he felt he was needed in the military and shortly after returned to military duty. He ended up in the war with Korea, in a camp and his minstry to the soldiers is inspiring, touching and a tribute to the incredible spirit of one man.

6/16/09

Boy, 8, saves sister and drunk adults from fire WARSAW, Poland – Police in Poland say an 8-year-old boy saved his sister and three drunk adults from a fire by calling police and fighting the flames before help arrived. The fire started outside the door of the boy's apartment in the western town of Miedzyrzecz late Monday.

 

6/10/09

Luke Cole dies at 46; leading practitioner of environmental law Luke Cole, a leading theorist and practitioner of environmental justice law, who battled toxic waste facilities, mega-dairies, mining companies and other pollution threats in poor and minority communities in California and Alaska, died Saturday in a car crash in Uganda. He was 46.

Cole was traveling with his wife on a rural road in western Uganda when a truck hit their vehicle head-on. He died at a clinic a short time later, according to his father, Herbert Cole. His wife, Nancy Shelby, was flown to a hospital in Amsterdam, where she is recovering from her injuries.A man of many passions, Cole was the executive director of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, a San Francisco-based nonprofit he founded in 1989 to address environmental racism, in which low-income and minority communities are alleged to suffer a disproportionate share of pollution problems.

 

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4/27/09

Quick-thinking neighbor holds suspect at gunpoint until police arrive A Spokane man is being credited with stopping a burglary at his neighbor's house after making an effort to check on a situation he found suspicious.

4/5/09

My Friend The making of Bellingrath Gardens, ca. 1933. As the economic depression [of the 1930's] worsened, friends quietly kept Mrs. Bellingrath aware of families in need.  She would appear, checkbook in hand, begging for an azalea, camellia or whatever bloom she saw in the family yard.  She would convince the stunned homeowner that Bellingrath Gardens had been unable to locate one and then offer hundreds of dollars in an era when $25 a week was a comfortable income.  She told a flowershop owner that her crocheted afghans were the most handsome she'd seen and offered her $100 each for a dozen, knowing the money would put the woman's niece in college, which it did.  After her sudden death in 1943, the Catholic Bishop called Mr. Bellingrath and asked permission for a group of nuns to say a prayer as a way of thanks for all she had done for them.  As the couple was Presbyterian, this surprised Mr. Bellingrath, who asked, "How?"  Without his knowledge, she had been sending flowers to the Catholic Providence infirmary every week.  The staff was instructed to place flowers in anyone's room who did not have flowers sent by family or friends.
Her tombstone bears the inscription:  "I shall always think of you wandering through a lovely garden, like that which you fashioned with your own hands, where flowers never fade and no cold wind of sorrow blights our hopes and plans....And on your face, the peace of one whose whole life through, walked with God.  --  Your Devoted Husband"

3/13/09

Town comedian hailed as hero in Alabama killings Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. On Friday, witnesses and authorities said Maloy, the 10th and final victim of Tuesday's shooting rampage by Michael McLendon, single-handedly tried to end the violence with his beat-up old pickup truck.

With gunshots still echoing through downtown Samson and the killer headed toward a bigger city 12 miles away, Maloy chased McLendon's dark red Mitsubishi out of town, ramming the vehicle at least once.

Maloy slowed down the killer briefly, and he may have given police and state troopers time to catch up to McLendon, said Geneva County Chief Deputy Tony Helms. But it cost him his life


 


In Phoenix , Arizona , a 26-year-old mother stared down
at her 6 year old son, who was dying of terminal leukemia.

Although her heart was filled with sadness,

she also had a strong feeling of determination.
Like any parent, she wanted her son to grow up &
fulfill all his dreams. Now that was no longer possible..


The leukemia would see to that. But she still
wanted her son's dream to come true.

She took her son' s hand and asked,
'Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted
to be once you grew up?
Did you ever dream and wish what you would
do with your life?'

Mommy, 'I always wanted to be a fireman
when I grew up.'

Mom smiled back and said, 'Let's see if we can
make your wish come true.'

Later that day she went to her local fire
Department in Phoenix , Arizona , where she met
Fireman Bob, who had! a heart as big as Phoenix

She explained her son's final wish and
Asked if it might be possible
to give her 6 year-old son a ride around the

block on a fire engine

Fireman Bob said, 'Look, we can do
better than that. If you'll have your son ready at
seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll make
him an honorary Fireman for the whole day.
He can come down to the fire station, eat with us,
go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards!

And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform
for him, with a real fire hat, not a toy- one with the emblem of the
Phoenix Fire Department on it, a yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots.'

'They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix ,
so we can get them fast.'


Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy,
dressed him in his uniform and escorted him from his
hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck.

Billy got to sit on the back of the truck
and help steer it back to the fire station.
He was in heaven.


There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day
and Billy got to go out on all three calls.

He rode in the different fire engines,
the Paramedics van,
and even the fire chiefs car.

He was also videotaped for the
local news program.

Having his dream come true,
with all the love and attention that was lavished upon him,
so deeply touched Billy, that he lived three months longer
than any doctor thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to
drop dramatically and the head nurse, who believed
in the hospice concept - that no one should die alone, began
to call the family members to the hospital.

Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a
Fireman, so she called the Fire Chief and asked if it would be
possible to send a fireman in uniform to
the hospital to be with Billy as he made his transition.

The chief replied, 'We can do better than that.
We'll be there in five minutes.. Will you please do me a favor?

When you hear the sirens screaming and see the
lights flashing, will you announce over the
PA system that there is not a fire?'

'It's the department coming t o see one of its finest members one more time.
And will you open the window to his room?'

About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck
arrived at the hospital and extended its ladder up to Billy's third floor
open window---16 fire-fighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's room

With his mother's permission, they hugged him and
held him and told him how much they LOVED him.
 
 
With his dying breath,
Billy looked up at the fire chief and said,
'Chief, am I really a fireman now?'

'Billy, you are, and the Head Chief,
Jesus, is holding your hand,' the chief said.


With those words, Billy smiled and said,
'I know, He's been holding my hand all day, and
The angels have been Singing...’

He closed his eyes one last time.

My
instructions were to send
this to at least four People that I
Wanted God to bless and I picked you.

Please pass this to at
least four people you want to be blessed.
This
story is powerful and there is nothing attached,
PLEASE
Do not break this pattern;
Uplifting stories are one of the best
Gifts we receive.
There is no cost, but a lot of rewards, let's

Continue to uplift one another~

Mary's Meals: feeding the world from a garden shed Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow's charity Mary's Meals provides school meals for 350,000 children every day. But can't he afford a proper office? The corrugated tin hut crouching in the undergrowth, dwarfed by dripping firs, looks like a wartime relic nobody could be bothered to clear away. It has an unglamorous past – children's games room, garage, all-purpose bothy – but these days there's a hint of importance in its decrepit exterior: a sign reading "Mary's Meals" has been stuck above the doorway.

 

 

Amy Goodman And Colleagues Arrested And Released Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon.All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers.Democracy Now! is a nationally-syndicated public TV and radio program that airs on over 700 radio and TV stations across the US and the globe.

4/27/08

LOCAL HEROES: SEATTLE TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR
REFUSING TO GIVE STANDARDIZED TEST

2/4/08

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Judge: Navy not exempt from sonar ruling .
Scientists have said that loud sonar can damage the brains and ears of marine mammals,
and that it may mask the echoes some whales and dolphins listen for when they use
their own natural sonar to locate food.
orca
Saved from the clutches of non-environmentalist, George W. Bush, at least for the moment.

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1/23/08

Friendly Fire - Raising questions about 9/11 gets an Army sergeant demoted for 'disloyalty'

These days, Donald Buswell’s job is not as exciting or dangerous as it once was. For the past few months, his working hours have been spent taking care of some 40-plus wounded soldiers at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston medical center. The work is sometimes menial, even janitorial, but he doesn’t mind. After all, Buswell has been where these men are — three years ago, he too was recovering from wounds received in a battle zone in Iraq. His crime? He dares to ask real and hard questions about what and who caused 9-11.

Bravo Donald!!!!

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Remembering Audrey Hepburn: a woman with the beauty and grace of a Gazelle, an actress who
could have spent her life on the stage and entertaining instead gave it up to dedicate
her life to helping starving children the world over. This was a heroine and a great lady.

audrey

thank you Audrey!

Audrey Hepburn: A Tribute to her Humanitarian Work

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