Today's Hero Blog

He’s short, bald, wears hearing aids, and is almost as round as he is tall. But don’t you ever try to tell me that my husband, Ralph Paxton, is not a hero!
When Ralph and I married, I was a widowed mother of four school age children with a high school education and limited options. Ralph [...]

I want the world to know that my father, Donald Stanford is a true hero. There is nothing in the world he would not do for his family. And all he has ever asked in return is that we be happy. 
My father never had much of an education, dropping out of school to go to [...]

My first husband, Patrick Smith, was a wonderful man who left us much too soon when what began as a nagging headache was diagnosed as a brain tumor. Patrick fought his illness as hard as he could, but the cancer was very aggressive, and within months he passed away.
Both of our parents were gone, and [...]

My mother, Colleen Reed, defines the word hero. Mom has always put others before herself in every way.
My father deserted our family when I was nine years old, leaving my mother with three hungry little kids to feed, and never paid a penny in child support. So it was left to Mom to raise us, [...]

If someone can be both a hero and an angel too, I think that would be my sister-in-law Barbara.
Barbara has been married to my older brother Walt for 50 years, and the day she came into our family was one of the best things that ever happened to us.
Walt and Barbara raised five wonderful children [...]

I met Terry my first day at high school and he became my best friend instantly.
I was the new kid at school, having moved into the neighborhood only a week before school started. I was also much smaller than most boys my age. That made me an instant target for the bullies, who welcomed me [...]