Category: Inspirational

Amazing Story of 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

(This is from Air Canada Retiree’s newsletter)

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 we were about 5 hours  out of Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic. All of a sudden the curtains parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to see the captain.

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He Has Cerebral Palsy And He Paints Masterpieces Using Only A Typewriter

Two Blind Sisters See for the First Time

Two Blind Sisters See for the First TEim

Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ In Sign Language Is Even Better Than The Original

10 Life Lessons From Navy Seal Training

Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave a commencement address that graduates, and their parents, won’t soon forget.

  1. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
  2. If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
  3. If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.
  4. If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
  5. But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.
  6. If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.
  7. So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.
  8. If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.
  9. So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.
  10. If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

Now read the explanations behind the ten lessons: Link

 

What do you get for helping others?

Story of saving a humpback whale caught in a fishing net

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!

Story of a group of young boys that had no soccer field to play on, but found a way…

 

WestJet Christmas Miracle

Very Cool!

 

Sir Nicholas Winton – Hero who saved hundreds of children from nazis

Update 7/1/2015 – Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106. I have updated this page to also include a 60 minutes report.

Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

After the war, Nicholas Winton didn’t tell anyone, not even his wife Grete about his wartime rescue efforts. In 1988, a half century later, Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic, with all the children’s photos, a complete list of names, a few letters from parents of the children to Winton and other documents. She finally learned the whole story.

In the short video below, the survivors gathered to give him a wonderful surprise:

Here is a much longer video from 60 Minutes.