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100 year old Ruth still does stretches and Pilates- and doesn't leave home without lipstick... this sweet lady is worthy of my admiration, to be the age she is and still do what she does, puts me to shame in a big way!
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Dorothy Counts, the first African American girl to attend an all-white school, being taunted by her peers. This girl's strength ...
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On Sept. 11, 2001, Omar Eduardo Rivera, a blind computer technician, was working on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center with his guide dog, Dorado. Thinking he wouldn't make it, the owner unleashed his dog so he could have a chance to escape. The dog, Dorado, and a co-worker then helped Rivera climb down 70 flights of stairs, which took nearly an hour. Soon after they escaped the tower, the building collapsed, and Rivera says he owes his life to his faithful dog.
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Rosa Parks refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man indirectly led to some of the most significant civil rights legislation of American history. She sought to play down her role in the civil rights struggle but for her peaceful and dignified campaigning she became one of the most well respected figures in the civil rights movements.
Gordan and Norma Yeager, a couple in Iowa, were married for 72 years before dying 1 hour apart, holding hands.
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After falling in love & escaping Auschwitz together, this couple was separated in the midst of World War II. "While talking with her Polish cleaning woman in 1982, Ms Cybulska related her Auschwitz escape story. The stunned woman said she had heard Mr Bielecki tell the same story on Polish TV. She then helped Ms Cybulska find Mr Bielecki in Poland. In the summer of 1983, they met at the Krakow airport. He brought 39 red roses, one for each year they had spent apart."
This picture should show all of us that you never ever give up, no matter what challenges we face.
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Oklahoma city bombing by Tim McVeigh, I don't think anyone will ever forget this amazing picture, or the day that horrible tragedy happened.
Dick and Rick Hoyt....this is the picture of love and loyalty.
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Born in 1931, Carmen Dell’Orefice is the world's oldest working model. She is tres fabu!
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Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen!!
“I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one’s companion. Any man who will make his wife’s comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come” Happily married for nearly 67 years!
Holocaust survivors from the illegal immigrant ship Exodus . . . Can't help but notice the girl facing the camera and the hope in her eyes . . .
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Anne Frank, an incredibly brave little girl who will live on in the memories of many.
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Release of Vietnam Prisoners of War, This photo by Slava Veder, won the Pulitizer Prize in 1974.
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Billy Graham, a true Christian man if ever there was one on this earth!
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Gift of life foundation is a great organization that helps so many people, but so many more people are needed to sign their card. w.
*Pioneer times...The Chrisman Sisters, 1887. They were homesteaders in Nebraska (no men taking care of them!)
"I was raised by a single mother. I think the definition of a man’s man has shifted in recent times to this sort of fratty bro, different from the older version, which was aloof and istant—Gary Cooper or Cary Grant or James Bond. Now it’s a little vulgar, kind of lowbrow, adolescent. I’m not that guy. Part of being an adult is treating women like women." -Jon Hamm swooooooooooon!
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John Lennon. I just watched the made for tv movie about his killer, Mark David Chapman, and in the info at the end it stated that he has been denied parole two or three times now, and probably will be denied again the next time. Good. w.
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Sometimes you have to be strong, even when your whole world just fell apart. Support our troops.
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'True love never fades': Husband, 100, and wife, 99, who have been together 82 years....I say WOW, and good for this beautiful couple! God Bless them both.
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William Booth (1829-1912) A Methodist minister who founded The Salvation Army in 1878 to preach and give help, shelter and food to poor people.
Ruth..Where You go I will go, Where You stay I will stay. selflessness
Maria Luisa A homeless 92-year old who spent all of her life in orphanages and convents, earns her living knitting baby clothes in the parking lot of a Montevideo supermarket.
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World Vision is such a wonderful organization, one which my family and I have been a part of several times over the years, sponsoring several children, both boys and girls from all over the world.
May God bless this woman and watch over her, as I am sure He is
Helen Keller...I've never before seen a picture of her at this age, what a lovely woman.
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Ruth Graham. Her epitaph read "End of construction. Thank you for your patience." An unbelievable life.
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Rochester, N.Y.- Staff Sergeant Javier Ortiz-Rivera called his boys his little Marines. He loved playing with them and teaching them how to salute and stand tall. The youngsters used those lessons to bid their father farewell. Wearing tiny Marine uniforms made especially for them, they saluted their father as he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Seventy family members and friends attended the service to honor Sergeant Ortiz-Rivera. It was his wish to be buried there. Family members say Javier sensed he was in danger weeks before he was killed in Afghanistan. In a letter dated the week before he was killed, Javier’s brother Orlando says, Javier told his wife Veronica, he was exhausted and was tired of being shot at. Ortiz says he thinks his brother sensed he was in danger. At one point, Javier told his wife, “time seems to be slipping away.” Orlando Ortiz says his brother never questioned his service to his country and loved what he did. Though his family is devastated, Orlando says they are very proud of Javier and know his children will be so proud, once they understand who their father was and that he died fighting for his country.
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! 100 ! This beautiful lady certainly does not look like she's 100, incredible.
A member of the Andrew Sisters-styled group The Victory Belles plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack, Dec. 7 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans
This just makes my heart swell.....I can't even imagine what this moment would be like for this young soldier.
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"When I was about twenty years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. "But one day when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking--the first in his life. And she told him he would have to go outside and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. "He said to her, 'Mama, I couldn't find a switch, but here's a rock you can throw at me.' All of the sudden a mother understood how the situation felt from the child's point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. "The mother took the boy onto her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. Because violence begins in the nursery--one can raise children into violence." ~From a peace prize acceptance speech given by Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking
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