November 9, 2008
Looking For Stories
This is for the last chapter of my book. I'm looking for stories where one person's act of generosity or kindness or bravery led lots of other people to pitch in and act generously. Ideally, these would be news stories, but other stories would be okay as well.
If you have links, as always (to get around the spam-eating software), please post one per comment. If you have another link, post a separate comment, and please wait about 30 seconds before you do. Thanks!
P.S. If you'd rather, feel free to e-mail them to me at adviceamy at a o l dot com.
Comments
The Passengers of United flight 93 come to mind. And Pat Tillman, though his story kinda ended badly.
Posted by: LYT at November 9, 2008 1:40 PM
Thanks, Luke. Those are great, except for the endings. Any happier endings out there?
Posted by: Amy Alkon 
at November 9, 2008 2:57 PM
For a story from the war against jihadis that has a happy ending, try this one:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16079446/
Marcelle Shriver was startled to find out, in a letter from her son in Iraq, that Silly String could save soldier's lives. When sprayed out into a room, it hung up on otherwise invisible trip wires. She put the word out, donations poured in, and you can read the rest.
Posted by: Martin at November 9, 2008 6:16 PM
The obvious one to me, as Canadian, is Terry Fox. www.terryfoxrun.org
Posted by: Ray at November 10, 2008 6:33 AM
