A retired Marine Corps Iraq veteran returned to the home he bought with his wife in January. But thanks to a friend, volunteers and thousands of dollars of donations, it is not a rundown place anymore.
On Sunday, March 9, the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research posed as cheerleaders to don purple pom-poms and encourage thousands of runners in the LA Marathon. An official charity for the LA Marathon, the Foundation rallied lots of volunteers and provided a peppy cheering squad to uplift runners and walkers as they grew nearer to the finish line just a few miles away. These photos by Angela_Daves-Haley will make you feel like you were there cheering, too.
A Michigan mom, whose son told her there was no point to having a birthday party because he had no friends, has surely altered the course of the boy's life by created a Facebook page for his 11th birthday asking friends and family to send him positive thoughts. She thought she might get 50 responses, if all went well, but -- you guessed it -- the social media world exploded and after a week, the page had 50,000 fans. Now in its tenth day the page, which is a secret from her son, has 1.1 million likes!
In honor of his mother, a breast cancer survivor, and for Breast Cancer Awareness month, Ryan Marotta bought pink sneakers to wear to school. But, some of his middle school classmates harassed him because he was a boy wearing pink. When his friends found out why he was wearing the shoes, everyone started wearing pink.
After a Facebook post about a teen being demeaned for having no friends, 100 people in cars arrived at the school the next day, one after another, clogging the parking lot to rally their support.
An inspiring new television ad from the Guinness brewery has been viewed by more than 7 million people across YouTube along with the caption: Dedication. Loyalty. Friendship. The choices we make reveal the true nature of our character.
Debbie Sexton was half way home in the car after her cancer treatment when she realized she left her phone somewhere in the hospital. Thanks to the GPS turned on in her phone the mishap led to a meeting and friendship with a young man who had found her phone and has cancer too.
When a new neighbor moved in and began writing messages on a chalkboard in his front window, the funny and inspiring messages about happiness, or finding a wife, made Ayden Byle the toast of his Toronto neighborhood.
The University of Portland gave a standing ovation this month to one of their own, Sam Bridgman, a finance major who was forced into a wheelchair by a condition known as Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a rare, degenerative disorder that causes progressive loss of muscle strength. It was graduation day and Sam was determined to walk across the stage to get his diploma. When he did, the entire arena lifted him up with prolonged cheers.
The lives of two men, one a young marathon runner who had crossed the finish line two minutes before the bomb exploded, and an older man he rushed to help, have formed a bond neither man will soon forget.
After she declined to play and all her coworkers won a million dollars in the Powerball Jackpot, the office manager of a real estate company, who was hired just three weeks ago, found out why the group calls itself a family. None of them hesitated to share a portion of their $83,000 net winnings with 'the new girl'.
Harboring resentment can often be more harmful than the original injury. This Michigan duo shines the power of forgiveness and humanity.
A nice story was posted on Reddit about a friendship between a young shop girl and a homeless veteran who hangs out near where she works (photo, right). She received a gift from him the other day and shared the story with photos on December 5.
It started as a way for one Montana family to talk about the tragic school shooting of 26 children and adults. Now it's blossoming into an international movement to build a chain of handmade paper hearts to stretch for miles. Organizers will send a first shipment of 10,000 hearts – each linked to another and with its own personal message – this week.
At least four Facebook pages were created to reunite people with photographs, kayaks, wedding invitations and other cherished mementos they thought were lost during Superstorm Sandy. The sites have reunited a woman with her wedding dress, an urn containing cremated ashes with a loved one, a mother with a baby album and the congregation of St. Elisabeth's Chapel-by-the Sea in Ortley Beach, which was destroyed by the storm, with a plaque bearing names.
Jean Kabre is the concierge and event planner at 101 Constitution — a place full of people focused on power, influence, and Congressional lobbying. But when word got out that Kabre was helping support dozens of family members in his home village in Burkina Faso, the people whom Kabre had come to know as his friends, pitched in at astounding levels.
On October 24th, Michael Cali Moore, a National Guardsman, sent Dan, the anonymous founder of the Facebook page Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said a message concerning another Guardsman who was planning on killing himself that night.
These teachers and students care about their sweet little classmate so much, they gave up their luscious locks in a marathon shaving event.
Australian authorities are thanking the crew of an Air Canada flight for helping to locate a sailor in distress off the country's east coast. Luckily, one of the passengers on an Air Canada Flight en route from Vancouver to Sydney had binoculars.
126 years to the day since the copper lady was first unveiled in New York City's harbor, and after a year-long renovation, the Statue Of Liberty is set to receive visitors once again inside her crown. A ceremony on October 28 marked the reopening of the statue's crown and new access to a lower observation deck for the first time to visitors with disabilities.
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