In a room at the shelter, Jordan Smith found a bag of espresso coffee in a laundry basket. “When I saw the coffee, I felt like I could invite my friends over and make espresso for all of them at my own house,” she said. “I felt like I was ready to start my own life and live with my daughter.”
“(For) people who don’t believe in these natural remedies or alternative medicines, it is good idea to see and experience it,” participant Yuri Ito said.
This teenager from Chicago is a genius investor. He is 14 years old. He got $50,000 in his bank just by saving and investing.
It’s simply hard to ignore the faces of small balls of fur peering back up at you from a tiny room lined with cages. What should not be ignored is how these cats arrived at this place, nor what will happen to them.
In 1943, Kenneth Leak and his fellow crewmen were flying from Malta to Marseille, France, when one of the Dakota aircraft’s two engines stopped. “The pilot said, ‘Well, fellas, this is the point of no return. We had two engines and now we have one. We’re too far to turn back,’” Leak said. The transport aircraft had 30 men aboard, but landed safely in France.
Remembrance meant something very different to new Canadian Mazibur Rahman. On March 25, 1971, Rahman recalled the Pakistan army launched an attack on the Bengalis in Dhaka. “(They) killed hundreds of natives, raped the women and set fire to the villages. We passed many sleepless nights, starved for days together,” Mazibur said. “The army would raid village after village in search of Mukti Bahini (freedom fighters).”
Earlier this year, some high school students showed Toronto Legionnaires they can remember veterans. Along the way, their art touched branch president, Debbie Moore. “I was blown away by the artwork. I could not believe how much time and effort they put into it,” Moore said.
Sgt. Joe (Joey) Montgomery was the first soldier from Scott County, in Scottsburg, Ind., to die in Iraq. His body was greeted at the airport by those who loved and knew him. There was no eulogy at Montgomery’s funeral. Perhaps he didn’t need one.
The journey began with a poster and a dare for Alexandra Hackett. “My friend and I went to town on a Saturday and there was a big, free event for the young people,” she said. “And that’s where we saw the poster.” It depicted a boy and girl serving in the army. With the words ‘Join the army. See the world,’ written across the picture.
At 5 a.m. each day while on duty, David Garcia woke up to the sound of the alarm, strapped on his gear and readied himself for anything and everything. “You are faced with tough decisions a lot of the time, but you don’t have a lot of time to react,” Garcia said.