by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 16, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In May 2017, over the Memorial Day weekend, a 19-year-old soldier named Keaton Tilson was trying to get home to Granite City, Illinois. A stranger bought the soldier’s ticket home before the weekend was over. Tilson had enlisted in the U.S. Army about eight...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 15, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Carla Bannister is a mother in Woodlawn, a suburb north of Cincinnati, Ohio. In July 2024, a stranger gave her a car. Earlier that month, a man had set her SUV on fire. The fire happened early on a Tuesday. Surveillance video caught a man breaking the back window,...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 14, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Camren Breeden built a walker for his blind classmate out of spare wood. At the start of his senior year at University High School in Spokane Valley, Washington, he noticed that a classmate named Daniel was having trouble getting around the building. Daniel is blind...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 13, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In the summer of 2015, Richard Dubiel, 75, of Fremont, California, spent months trying to re-roof his house by himself. One Saturday, roughly twenty people showed up to finish his roof. Two doors down on Murphy Court, David Perez could see Richard up there from his...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 12, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In the summer of 2026 a man on Long Island saw her story on the news and asked how he could help. The woman was Nina Chambers, 36, a mother of three in the Melrose section of the Bronx. The two had never met. A fire in a neighboring building on East 160th Street tore...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 29, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Oliver Muensterer was living in Leipzig, Germany, when a hotel clerk gave him the shirt off his back so he could make a job interview. NPR aired the story on December 25, 2023, on its series My Unsung Hero, and dated the events to roughly fifteen years earlier. He had...
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