Today's Hero Blog

My brother Mike has been my best friend and the rock that I lean on for as long as I can remember. Sometimes I think life is unfair that Mike has had to give so much to me while going without so much in his own life.
Growing up, I always looked up to my big [...]

The first person who ever showed any real interest in me and who took the time to get involved in my life was my homeroom teacher in my first year of high school, Mrs. Samantha Royce. She changed my life.
I grew up in a rundown fifth floor apartment in Philadelphia, the daughter of Polish immigrants [...]

My father, George Weylund. is a hero for his gentleness as well as his strength, his wisdom as well as his ability to see the humor in everything, and most of all for the deep love and commitment he has for his family.
Daddy was a mailman during his first career, and he really did live [...]

My husband Luke would be my hero even if he wasn’t such a wonderful person. His kindness and integrity make him really stand out in a crowd.
When we first met, I was a night desk clerk at a hotel, and Luke was a taxicab driver who dropped off and picked up guests who were staying [...]

Have you ever heard the old saying that “old age and treachery always overcome youth and skill?”
Apparently a young thug in Australia never had heard it, so he learned that lesson the hard way, when he tried to rip off 72 year old Dawn Fraser at her daughter’s home on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
In Dawn’s own [...]

My boss, Mike Hunsaker, has been such a good man to work for and such a good friend to so many that I want to see him recognized as a Today’s Hero. Nobody I know deserves this recognition as much as Mike.
I first came to work for Mike six years ago, when I was 62 [...]

My friend Rick Carpenter has shown his goodness to other people so many times and in so many ways that you would never have room to list them all in your blog.
Rick is a minister and totally devoted to his congregation, his family, and the community at large. Whether he is visiting the sick, counseling [...]

I met Warren Stroudmeier when I went to pick his daughter Leslie up for our first date. I was a cocky young man who had just quit high school in my junior year because I was bored in class and wanted to earn money.
“So you are in my daughter’s class?” her father asked me in [...]

My first boss, Stacey Duncan, helped shape my life when I was just a teenager, and he will always be a hero to me.
I came from a very dysfunctional family; growing up we lived on food stamps and whatever my parents didn’t drink up from our welfare checks. Both of my sisters got pregnant by [...]

My husband Alan is a hero because he has devoted his entire life to helping those less fortunate.
Alan’s mother died when he was very young, and his father was not interested in the responsibility of raising a child, so he was shuffled from one reluctant family member’s home to the next while growing up. Always [...]