Today's Hero Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

Looking back at myself in high school, I was not the kind of person who ever deserved a break from someone like Mrs. Fioretti, my biology teacher. I was the spoiled only child of permissive parents who never told me no to anything. As a result, I continued to push the envelope, subconsciously looking for [...]

My wife Linda is not who you would think of when you say the word hero. She is tiny at just 5 feet and 98 pounds soaking wet, but she has more heart and courage than anybody three times her size.
Linda was the ninth child of a farming family, and she learned early that if [...]

I can’t recall a time when my brother Danny Copefield was not my hero. From the time I could toddle outside to play in the yard, my big brother looked over me and protected me. In fact, our mother said that one day when I was crying while she was changing my diaper when I [...]