The town that has suffered recently endless political humiliation, has something to be proud of this week:

Two boyhood friends who know what it's like to struggle in lower income families, together made it through medical school and now, 60 years later, they've come together again to provide free medical care to their community.

They coax companies into giving them free supplies or drugs to ease the burden.

Watch the Making a Difference video below, or at NBC website .

Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will taste a slice of home on July 4th after the delivery of 28,000 pizzas from UNO Chicago Grill.

The pies were shipped from JFK Airport in special containers to arrive fresh on battlefield thanks to the nonprofit organization Pizzas 4 Patriots, founded bytretired Master Sgt. Mark Evans.

Evans calls it a world record pizza party, which will serve almost 90,000 soldiers.  DHL Express is delivering the entire load in a 747 aircraft for free -- including 30,000 cases of beer.

AT&T joined the party sending along free calling cards so the troops can call home.

(Read more from NY Daily News)

"She's earning her sainthood one slice at a time..."

LeeAnn Camut organized a pizza party at St. John's Hospice for nearly 350 homeless men. The now-annual pizza affair is much anticipated.

"I wanted to feed their souls and not just their bodies," she said. "I wanted to make them feel special."

(Read the story in Philly.com)