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U.S. Soldier Fulfills His Mission of Getting Iraqi Girl New Legs

A U.S. soldier couldn't walk past an 11-year-old Iraqi girl who was "in a large decrepit wheelchair, the stumps of her legs crusted with dried blood... He stopped to talk and he came back every day for six months, bringing her toys, gauze for her legs, a new wheelchair... When she asked for legs, that became his mission, too."

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Kindness Tornado Rips Through Town

Biddeford, Maine experienced a tornado of kindness on Thursday. Residents were lifted up and spirits were tossed into unfamiliar territory as Michael Chase of the Kindness Center churned up a whirlwind of "100 acts of kindness in 100 minutes".

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Hero is Saving Children from Cambodia's Trash Heap

CNN Heroes: Cambodian's poorest kids are going to go to school now that a woman quit her job and spent $30,000 of her own money to build a school for them...

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Casino Mogul Hosts Wounded Soldiers in Vegas

40 wounded soldiers from veterans hospitals in Washington flew in a private jet to Las Vegas over the weekend for an all-expenses-paid getaway, thanks to the Sands hotel chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, who said they wanted to eventually extend the offer to every vet who had been admitted to the two D.C.-area hospitals.

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Private Psychiatrists Offer Free Service to Troops

Civilians are offering to help the Pentagon handle the growing mental health needs of troops. Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems, jumping in to help because the military is short on therapists.

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"Man Who Stopped Knife Fight….was Blessing From Above"

"A 56-year-old intervened in a brawl just off Interstate 40, kicking a knife out of the hand of one man and then separating the fighters. But the man, an ex-Marine who saw combat in Vietnam, says he did what most people would do in that situation — the right thing."

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Unarmed but Dangerous

Hello, my name is Tawana Williams. I know that my story will bless your viewers. I was born without arms in Wilson, NC. in 1963, due to the drug Thalidomide. The drug was given to pregnant women in the 1960's to prevent morning sickness, but caused major birth defects in unborn babies. My mother was […]

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Facebook Reunion Leads to Kidney Donation (Video)

Two grade-school friends who reconnected thanks to the social networking site, Facebook, after more than a decade are becoming more than bosom buddies. One is donating a kidney to his rediscovered pal.