Overview
This is the America that we know and love, the one filled with citizens, new and old, who work hard, perform random acts of kindness, and see a path to a better future.
Read about:
- The African American woman who takes comfort in recalling that her mother, as a child in the segregated South, was welcomed to the front of the bus by her white neighbors.
- The friendship that developed between a Florida mosque and the elderly Jewish residents of a highrise next door after a hurricane knocked out power and members of the mosque carried food and water to the stranded residents for days.
- The injured football coach who gave half the proceeds from a town fundraiser for his benefit to another injured resident who needed the money as well.
- The Ferguson, Missouri restaurant that was protected from looting by a chain of its customers standing arm in arm.
- The couple who bought a gift card for a struggling military family in a restaurant, only to discover other patrons had already done the same.
- The Latin American immigrant who cleaned houses and scraped together money for her education, becoming California State Teacher of the Year.
… and 95 more stories that will make you proud to be an American.
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