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 [...]

Every mother who sends her son off to war dreads that knock on the door when men in uniform come to deliver the worst possible news. It was December 12, 1967 when that knock came, and my whole world turned upside down. My beautiful son Paul, only nineteen years old, was gone.
The next three weeks [...]

My mother-in-law, Shirley Stewart, definitely deserves to be called a hero. But angel and saint work very well too.
When I married Shirley’s daughter Sheila, she was a widowed mother who had raised four children on her own. Sheila was the oldest. Shirley’s husband had been killed in an industrial accident, and her attorney had rolled [...]

I’d like my husband, Jerry Greenlow, to be one of the heroes in your great blog.
Jerry has shown so much patience and love to both me and my family that it is amazing. I always wonder what he gets out of it, because the tradeoff seems so very high.
We met in high school and dated [...]

I would like to nominate my mother-in-law, Sharla Byers, as one of your heroes, since you don’t grant sainthood.
When Ricky took me home to meet his family, he told me to be prepared, because his mother had never liked any of his girlfriends before, and made no secret about it. So I was prepared for a regular [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]