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Remembering Those Who Had Courage to Care

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 03.18.2013 | World
Read More: Rescue, Anti-Semitism, Adl, Holocaust, Anti-Defamation League, United Nations, UN Holocaust Rescuers, Schindler's List, The Holocaust, World War II, World News
Abraham H. Foxman

Aside from Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which in 1993 so greatly elevated public awareness of one rescuer in particular, the stories of the righteous gentiles who stepped up to make a profound, life-altering choice have been largely forgotten to history.

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8 Amazing Videos of Everyday Folks Made Unsung Heroes

Posted 01.02.2013 | Impact
Read More: Unsung Heroes, Video, Zero Dark Thirty, Heroes, Caught on Tape, American-Hero, Save, Rescue, American Heroes, Good Samaritan, Sony, Impact News

From law enforcement here at home to our troops overseas, ordinary citizens are answering the call of duty to protect our rights, freedoms, and lives....

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The Hand of Man: A True Christmas Story

Terrie M. Williams | Posted 02.15.2013 | World
Read More: Hawaii, Animal Rescue, Children, Motherhood, Waikiki Aquarium, California, Swim, Mankind, Santa Cruz, Hand of Man, Christmas, Puppies, Rutgers University, Faith, Friend, Hawaiian Monk Seal, UC Santa Cruz, Christmas Story, Hospital, Surfing, Feel Good, Seal, University of California, Molokai, U.S. Coast Guard, Nature, Rescue, u.s. Marines, Happy, Ocean, Kaunakakai, Kp2, World News
Terrie M. Williams

Despite the rawness of nature, the world made more sense in the oceans, the forests and the mountains. Yet, it was from the wilderness through one animal -- an endangered seal named KP2 (Kauai Pup 2) -- that my faith in the hand of man was restored.

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Oregon Teen Rescues Boy From House On Fire

The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 09.26.2012 | Teen
Read More: Oregon Teen, Video, Teen Rescues Boy, House Fire, Rescue, Marcos Ugarte, Fire, Teen Saves Boy, Oregon, Teenagers, Oregon Teen Boy, Teen News

A fire broke out on the second story of a family home in Oregon on Monday night, and 8-year-old Cody Ma was trapped in a room upstairs, the Oregonian ...

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Are We Being Those Parents?

Amy Ruhlin | Posted 11.04.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Enable, Boomerang Kids, Apartment, Helicopter Parents, Adulthood, Rescue, Kindness, Independence, Gratitude, Parenting, Fifty News
Amy Ruhlin

As my husband drives us back home, I sit in the car and wonder if today was a rescue. I wonder if we were being "helicopter parents."

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Cow Gets Stuck In Tree

Reuters | Posted 10.29.2012 | Weird News
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LONDON (Reuters) - A cow had to be rescued by fire services in northern England after it tumbled down a 30 meter river embankment and got stuck in a t...

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A Lifesaver Goes Back to School

Eli Beer | Posted 10.14.2012 | Impact
Read More: School, Harvard, Beer, Emt, United, Rescue, Emergency, Israel, Eli, Hatzolah, Business, Hatzalah, Ichud, Impact News
Eli Beer

For the first time, not only did I want to study academically, I couldn't get enough of it. Here I was in one of the best universities in the world listening to the highest level professors and learning so much.

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'Maybe I Went Too Far' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 07.27.2012 | Teen
Read More: Video, Swim, Mecklenberg Athletic Center, Make a Splash Initiative, Drowning, Olympic Swimming, Rescue, London Olympics, Dima Zaytsev, Drowning Teen, Swimmac, Cullen Jones, North Carolina, Teen News

Dima Zaytsev, a 17-year-old competitive swimmer, was putting in extra training hours at the North Carolina swim training center SwimMAC last week when...

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Man With Autism Wanders Desert For Weeks

AP | PAUL FOY and DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 09.12.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Video, Page Arizona, Rescue, William Lafever, Boulder Utah, Escalante Desert, Autistic, Autism, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Utah, Weird News News

SALT LAKE CITY — The father of a 28-year-old autistic man who barely survived three weeks in remote southern Utah says his son was an experienc...

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Teacher Dies After Saving Two Students At Cleveland's Huntington Beach

Posted 06.29.2012 | Home
Read More: Teacher Dies After Saving Students, Video, Cleveland, Waves, Positive Education Program, Rescue, Laura Recco, Huntington Beach, Ohio Teachers, Teachers, Students, Lake Erie, Home News

Laura Recco, a teacher at Positive Education Program School in Cleveland, Ohio, died Wednesday morning after rescuing two students from rough Lake Eri...

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21 Heroes Get Carnegie Medal For Risking Their Lives For Another

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 03.21.2012 | Impact
Read More: Rescue, John F. Morris, Kevin Patrick Boyle, Carnegie Heroes, Heroes, Cara A. Ellis, Angela M. Pierce, Carnegie Hero Medals, Impact News

-- Winners of Carnegie Hero medals awarded Wednesday: _ Cara A. Ellis, 21, of Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J., died attempting to rescue Bryan H. M...

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WATCH: Man Rescued From Burning Car By Policemen

Posted 03.07.2012 | Good News
Read More: Police Officers Rescue, Video, Car Accident, Rescue Burning Car, Medal of Valor, Rescue, Burning Car, Hero, Oregon, Good News News

Two Keizer, Ore., police officers were bestowed with Medals of Valor on Monday after risking their lives to rescue a man from a burning car, KATU repo...

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WATCH: Drowning Homeless Man Rescued By Good Samaritan

Posted 03.05.2012 | Good News
Read More: Rescue, Homeless Man Drowning Rescue, Good Samaritan, Drowning, Oregon, Drowning Rescue, Video, Good News News

A homeless man almost drowned Sunday while attempting to swim to a public dock on Oregon's Willamette River. Fortunately, the quick response of a good...

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Woman Rescued From Speeding Train Moments Before Smashing Car

Posted 02.24.2012 | Good News
Read More: Christina Johnson, Heroes, Train Rescue, Rescue, Demitri Theodoropulos, Delaware, Monique Dyton, Train, Shawn Brown, Railroad, Video, Good News News

Stuck on the tracks of the CSX railroad in Newark, Del., 24-year-old Monique Dyton and her sister Christina Johnson, 22, were just moments away from d...

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State Trooper Rescues Man From Fiery Truck Explosion

Posted 02.21.2012 | Good News
Read More: Rescue, Burning Car, Luis Cotto, Massachusetts, Police, David Procopio, Allyson Powell, State Troopers, Video, Good News News

When Luis Cotto, 42, of Taunton, Mass., lost control of his tractor truck on a bridge early Sunday, the vehicle burst into flames. Fast-acting Stat...

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2-Year-Old Ken. Girl Rescued After Getting Stuck In Arcade Game

Posted 02.17.2012 | Good News
Read More: Child Rescued, Arcade Game, Video, Firefighters, Children, Lexington Kentucky, Rescue, Kentucky, Kaytlyn Campbell, Good News News

Kaytlyn Campbell, a 2-year-old from Lexington, Ky., wasn't very comforted by the stuffed animals around her when she got stuck inside an arcade game o...

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The 10 Most Amazing Tales of Animal Rescue (VIDEO)

Posted 02.03.2012 | Home
Read More: Universal, Animal Rescue, Cats, Pets, Rescue, Teen Impact, Bats, Bslide-Universalpictures2, Fire, Animals, Dogs, Big Miracle, Home News

We hear and read stories about these kinds of heroic acts all the time. Whether it's our fellow man helping out man's best friend or people putting as...

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Bystanders Jump Into Icy River To Perform Heroic Rescue

AP | By LYNN DeBRUIN | Posted 08.10.2012 | Impact
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SALT LAKE CITY -- As many as 10 people jumped into an icy Utah river to help save three trapped children after a car plunged down a 10-foot embankment...

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Rescuers Save Family Buried In Snow For 2 Days

AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 12.23.2011 | Impact
Read More: Texas, Yvonne Higgins, Video, Hannah Higgins, New Mexico, League City, Springer, National, Rescue, Higgins Family, Good News, Angel Fire, David Higgins, Impact News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Rescuers on Wednesday pulled a Texas family from an SUV that had been buried in a snowdrift on a rural New Mexico highway for nea...

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The Stray Dogs Of Thailand And How Travel Can Help Them

Wendy Diamond | Posted 12.11.2011 | Travel
Read More: Animal Rescue, Thailand, Spca, Animal Fair, Thanatip Thininoraset, Thai SPCA, World Dogs Center, Scad Bangkok, Traveling With Your Dog, Rescue, Vietnam, Dog, Samui Dog Rescue Center, Wendy Diamond, Tspca, Travel News
Wendy Diamond

Thailand is filled with abandoned pets, but a grassroots effort is beginning to take shape to help these abandoned animals.

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Lending a Helping Paw on the 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.08.2011 | New York
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Wendy Diamond

While our firefighters and police officers became real-life superheroes on September 11th, we must not forget the four-legged heroes who played a big part.

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Neighbors Rescue Burn Victim From Ravenswood Fire

Posted 10.22.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Ravenswood, Chicago Fd, Neighbor, Fire, Good News, Chicago Fire Department, Burn Victim, Nick Salazar, Chicago Fire, Chicago, Rescue, Cta, North Side, Chicago Impact, Cta Bus Driver, Chicago News

Two residents of a burning Ravenswood apartment rescued a critically injured neighbor during an early Monday fire. Nick Salazar, one of the two ne...

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Missing Deputy Found Dead After Attempting To Save Girl

AP | Posted 09.30.2011 | Home
Read More: Search, Missing Deputy, Bryan Gross, Body, Rescue, Converse County, Wyoming, Sheriff, Home News

DOUGLAS, Wyo. -- The body of a Wyoming deputy who jumped in the North Platte River to assist a struggling girl was discovered Sunday. It was the four...

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Yosemite Rangers Search for Hikers Believed Swept Over Falls

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 09.18.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Vernal Fall, Search, Hikers, Ranger, California, Missing, Waterfall, Merced River, Mist Trail, Rescue, Yosemite, Yosemite Falls, Northern California, National Park, San Francisco News

FRESNO, Calif. — A search and rescue operation at Yosemite National Park is set to resume at first light Wednesday in an area below a popular wa...

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Man Earns Carnegie Medal For Heroic Act, Vows To Become Firefighter

Posted 06.10.2011 | Impact
Read More: Firefighting, First Lady Fashion, Timothy Mccarthy, Kansas, Car Crash, Firefighters, Carnegie Medal, Rescue, Carnegie Hero, Video, Impact News

NBC Action News reports that one man earned a Carnegie Medal for an act of heroism in his community. The life-changing act has since encouraged him to...

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