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 [...]

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 [...]

I want to see my husband Fred featured as one of your heroes, so all the world knows what I and the rest of our family already know. Of course, Fred would be the first to tell you he’s just an everyday guy, but he’d be the only one to say that!
From the day we [...]

My son Derek has always impressed me with his amazing ability to relate to people of all ages and backgrounds, even when he was very young. He has a natural curiosity about people and always wants to learn more about everyone he meets.
I remember that he used to sit and talk to his grandmother for [...]

My birth mother, Susan Markey is a hero in my eyes, even though I never saw her until I was almost 30 years old. But her courage when she was only a young girl insured I would have a wonderful life filled with love and opportunity.
I knew from an early age that I had been [...]

My daughter Diane deserves the title of hero because she has endured a tremendous amount of grief and pain, yet never seems to have the time to focus on that. There are too many others in this world she is busy helping.
When Diane was fourteen she was a passenger in a car that was driven [...]

I wish I were half the man my son Ty is. To say I am proud of him would be the biggest understatement of all time.
Ty was a typical happy go lucky teenager until he reached tenth grade. That was when he was injured while riding a friend’s motorcycle and lost his right leg, just [...]

A lot of people owe their immersion into the world’s new technology to Daniel DeSerrao. Daniel is my nephew, and from the time he was a very little boy he was fascinated with the world of electronics, especially communication. When he was about ten years old he was building primitive crystal radios, a year or [...]

My husband Pete has proven himself to be a hero so many times it would take an entire book to tell the story. Pete worked during high school and college to pay his own way, and also contributed money to help his family, unlike today’s kids, who are always calling home asking for money.
His mother [...]