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Rob Biron has seen some sad sights on the floor of the trauma ward at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He has also seen acts of bravery and kindness.

NewsFlash Home | More Washington State News   Couple requests prepaid calling cards — for soldiers in Iraq 11/7/2004, 3:28 p.m. PT The Associated Press     PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Local newlyweds made an unusual wedding-gift request: They wanted prepaid international telephone calling cards.Tony Clayton and Jeana Johnson-Clayton are sending the nearly 60 cards they received to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, so the troops can call home during the holidays.The bride's son, Chris Johnson, is serving in the Marine Corps and will be deployed early next year, she said."We thought about our friends who have sons...

NEIL JONES JERREL BOLTON CHEVROLET WEST TX. 1-800-460-5377 www.boltonchevrolet.com Hello Everyone. I just wanted to pass this information along to each of you so you know what a truly compassionate and caring man we have in President Bush.

It's pretty hard for Americans to get visas to visit Iran. My friend Mohammad had his scientific institute invite me to give a talk, which made it possible for me to go. Due in part to my own errors and in part to inadequate directions from the Iranian consular people, my visa was delayed. I got it less than 20 hours before my flight. The main reason for my trip was to visit my friend Mohammad, who is from Iran but who went to college and grad school in the U.S. Here he is in the mountains south of the...

Gifts for theft victim roll in BY MARY JANE SHORT AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Robert McDonald will soon have a new set of wheels and more, thanks to an outpouring of generosity from people as far away as New Mexico who wanted to see his independence restored. McDonald's special three-wheeled bicycle, which he used for tasks such as hauling clothes to the laundry, was stolen last week from his back porch. See Fox Footage JIM WATKINS * AVALANCHE JOURNAL Radio station Fox Talk 950 raised $ 1501.00 Monday to replace a '98 Huffy bike stolen from a Goodwill Industries employee and dystonia patient...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq - On a sunny morning earlier this month, Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann borrowed a shiny white GMC pickup from an Army sergeant and took a windows-down drive around the Green Zone, the complex that houses American civilian and military authorities in Baghdad.</p>

Military wife gets $500 gift of kindness from stranger By Lisa Heyamoto Seattle Times Eastside bureau DEAN RUTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES After a casual conversation with a man in line at the Woodinville Post Office, in which Karin Santos mentioned her husband serving in Iraq, the man presented her with a wad of cash in the parking lot. E-mail this article Print this article Search archive It was in the post-office parking lot, of all places, where Karin Santos rediscovered her faith in humanity. It had been an emotional few months. Her husband Alberto had left for Iraq in...

A Liberal and a Conservative were walking down the street together. They came up upon a homeless man. The homeless man asked, "Can you help out a fellow that's down on his luck?" The Conservative reached into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and handed it and a business card to the man and said, "Here you go. You may want to call the number on the card because, they may have a job for you if you're interested." The man thanked him. As the Liberal and Conservative continued their walk, they came upon another homeless man. The homeless...

<p>ZUBAYDIYAH, IRAQ - Not all the contacts between Americans and Iraqis on the front lines along the Tigris River yesterday took place at the point of a gun.</p> <p>Along the eastern bank of the river, tanks and infantry moved from the city of Kut toward Baghdad to the northwest, sweeping towns and villages looking for elements of Iraq's Republican Guard. They met pockets of resistance and drew mortar fire from inside some of the towns. Plumes of black smoke could be seen as the tanks returned fire.</p>

The Difference between US and Them US: In 1994, The Green family with legal and valid passports and visas were on vacation in Italy. 7-year-old Nicholas Green of Bodega Bay, California, was with his parents and sister when the family was set upon by robbers. Shots were fired and young Nicholas was mortally wounded. For two days Nicholas lay in a hospital while the entire nation of Italy watched, waited and prayed. Nicholas did not live, but from the depths of this terrible tragedy came an act of goodness that touched not only all of Italy, but also Nicholas' fellow...

Imitating the Holy FamilyFour Traits that Make It PossibleBy Jeff SmithLike many parents, every day my wife and I face real and challenging issues in our family. We have two teenage sons and three younger children. Like many families, our children fight and bicker. Sometimes they are loving and kind, but at other times they are disrespectful. Sometimes they resist doing chores and homework.In addition to these very common problems with our children, my wife and I have to balance work and family life, make educational decisions for our kids, track our finances, and work through marital disagreements. This is...

The Richest Man in Town The small, every-day things make a Wonderful Life. William E. Saracino William E. Saracino is a member of California Political Review’s editorial board. This being my last column before Christmas, I invoke a point of personal privilege, opting out of my usual political ponderings to offer thoughts more apropos of the season. You don’t have to know me very well to discover that I think It’s A Wonderful Life is perhaps the finest movie ever made. Oh, not judging on technical standards, though the movie is quite well done. Wonderful Life is a great movie...

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVENHis Kindness to Mephibosheth2 Samuel 9 2 Samuel 9 presents to us one of the loveliest scenes in the life of David. To appreciate it properly we need to recall his earlier experiences, particularly the unkind treatment he received from the hands of Saul. We will only refer briefly now to the jealousy which was awakened in that king’s heart when he heard the women celebrating in song the victory of Jesse’s youthful son over Goliath. How that later he sought to kill David again and again by throwing a javelin at him. Finally, how that David had...

  -- explore the new feminism -- introduction | interaction | information find:     ifeminists.com > introduction > editorials   Compassion, Kindness Killed by Fear, Paranoia December 17, 2002 by Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com Terrorists hope to destroy the social fabric of the West by instilling a paranoia into our lives that makes us turn against each other. It is working. A new fortress mentality is being stoked by a media that dwells incessantly on every terrorist possibility, on every awful news story from anthrax to Catholic sex scandals. And so, we begin to view each stranger as a threat and...

Every year, for about the past thirty years, something very remarkable happens in the town of Walton, Kentucky. On a weekend, the "Good Guys" of Northern Kentucky meet together to load up all their pickup trucks with large barrels of goodies.The Good Guys Club is a private organization of volunteers joined together with no other intent than to provide whatever aid is needed for those in the area finding themselves on temporary hard times. These temporary hard times could be work lay-off, illness, a temporary change in family status for whatever reason, or any number of reasons.So, when a young...

<p>In an age when arrogance and "Sharpie" pens steal the national spotlight, it is often the smallest, most unnoticed acts of kindness that remind us that football is merely a game.</p> <p>The story, which is destined to become legendary in Southern Ohio circles, starts in Waverly. Northwest football coach Dave Frantz and Tigers’ coach Derek DeWitt shared a conversation the week leading up to the game.</p>

<p>In an age when arrogance and "Sharpie" pens steal the national spotlight, it is often the smallest, most unnoticed acts of kindness that remind us that football is merely a game.</p> <p>The story, which is destined to become legendary in Southern Ohio circles, starts in Waverly.</p>

<p>In an age when arrogance and "Sharpie" pens steal the national spotlight, it is often the smallest, most unnoticed acts of kindness that remind us that football is merely a game.</p> <p>The story, which is destined to become legendary in Southern Ohio circles, starts in Waverly.</p>

ANIMAL RIGHTS CAN'T REPLACE HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY By Brent Morrison-Style Columnist"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' " - Genesis 1:26 As I type these words there are three formerly homeless kittens sleeping in the safety of my enclosed porch. They are there because my wife plucked them from the trees of an orchard we pass on our evening walks, apparently abandoned...

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