Category: Heroism
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Survival
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEACHER_ACCUSED?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Teen with broken neck survives in woods</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Police believe a high school teacher who moonlights as a pro wrestler strangled a 17-year-old girl, leaving her in the woods with a broken neck for than 30 hours before leading investigators back to her body.<br />n<br />nSearchers who spotted Ashley Reeves' body through driving rain…
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Useless or Not
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060416/od_nm/germany_cat_dc">Cat saves baby's life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday.<br />n<br />n"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud…
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Abuse Upon Abuse
I warn you, this story is so tragic that it's almost hard to belive. What members of the human race do to one another I find more and more amazing the older I get.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/20060320/hz_afghanistan_0306/blogs2986">Child Bride</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He…
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Technology Loses
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/afghan_us_donkeys">Donkeys Get Marines Around in Afghanistan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Frustrated with the limitations of using its fleet of modern Humvee four-wheel-drives in rugged mountains with few roads, a battalion of U.S. Marines has enlisted a mode of transport used for centuries by Afghan villagers – donkeys.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe more things change, the more they stay the…
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True Strength
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/afghan_women_put_lives_on_line_to_run_for_office">Afghan Women Put Lives on Line To Run for Office</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Charkhi, 36, is a journalist based in the capital, Kabul, who is campaigning for a seat in Afghanistan's new parliament. But in this mud-walled village in Logar, the home province she hopes to represent, Charkhi's candidacy is such a challenge to tradition that…
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Doing the Right Thing
<blockquote>A mother frogmarched her two adult sons to a police station after recognising them on a television news video of an attempted robbery. <br />n<br />nMillie Ferryman was so determined to end their crime spree that she took them to four police stations before finding one that was open.</blockquote><br />n<br />nGood deal <a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/23/nmum23.xml">here</a>. Instead…
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The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.<br />n <br />nThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,<br />n <br />nWhen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and…
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Angel of Mercy
Saving the weak and disabled when no one else wants to. That's a hero in my book and so I introduce you to <a href=http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050525-070240-6400r">Lucy Fensom</a>, savior of Donkeys.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Donkeys are seen as the lowest of the low," explains Fensom, a petite blonde English woman in her mid-thirties, once a flight attendant for British…
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Rewarding Expereince?
<img width='180' height='135' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ashleysmith.jpg' alt='' />I am sure you all know about Ashley Smith, the hero who calmed down the Atlanta fugitive, Brian Nichols, and then turned him in to the authorities. It is really quite a story how she stayed with him and calmed him down and got him to turn…
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Bare Necessity
Wow, I can bare-ly wait. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/07/build/state/45-cancercalendar.inc" target="_new">This Montana</a> calendar is going to be a bare necessity for me. They're out to raise a barre-l of money to support breast cancer issues. Out on these barre-n plains of Montana, beauty will unfold with this calender. Don't avert your eye from these bare-legged beauties. Support them…