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 [...]

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 older brother Bill is my hero, even though he’ll probably call me a jerk for sending this in if you decide to publish it.
I always tell Bill that he was never a kid, because it seems like from the time he was a little boy, he was always thinking and acting like a grownup. [...]

My kid brother Jerry never gets any recognition for the many good things he does for others on a daily basis, and I think it’s about time he did!
Jerry is a hard working father of six kids, and even though he never finished high school, he educated himself by reading everything in the library, from [...]

My father is my hero, and having him in my life has been a blessing from the day I was born.
Mom and Dad were just kids themselves when they got married. Mom was still a month away from high school graduation, and Dad had dropped out of school to join the Army and serve in [...]

When I was a young man, a chance encounter brought me into contact with a man who changed my life, and I will forevermore be grateful to him.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood in New York City and had no purpose in life beyond hanging out with my friends and getting into mischief. I had [...]

I would like to tell you about my hero, my older sister Rachel Lamonte.
Rachel is only five years older than me, but she pretty much raised me, because our dysfunctional single mother was always busy with her boyfriend of the moment, or on the hunt for a new one. When she was home, she was [...]