HeroicStories

The friendship of an airline pilot opens up dreams for an ill boy, and gives him wings.

Children answer the call after 9/11 to raise money for the Red Cross.

A young girl gets a healthy mouth from an Air Force Base dentist.

by Susan L. Miller California, USA After four years of marriage I wanted my family to meet my husband, so over the 1978 Fourth of July weekend my husband and I flew from California to New York. At La Guardia Airport we found a bus strike. How would we get to Manhattan? Taxis were expensive, … Read more

Two brilliant sisters reproduce their mother’s home in a care apartment so that she feels like she is home the second she sees it.

A beggar on the streets of San Salvador teaches a lesson of sharing and hope.

A young Romanian woman steps up and helps a volunteer through a sudden hospital stay.

Feeling uncomfortable because of your own first impressions might not be a bad thing, as we all learn to look deeper.

A website generously offers to help Katrina victims and matches up small heroes with families who lost their homes.

A waitress provides regular dinners for two little hungry children.