After Puerto Rico was clobbered by Hurricane Maria, this celebrity chef and his team were on the ground serving meals to all of the survivors. Now, he has set up shop right in the middle of Hurricane Florence so he can feed everybody throughout the storm.
José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen are responsible for feeding millions of people during every kind of natural disaster. In Puerto Rico alone, he served over 3.6 million meals and his team stayed for an entire year to keep making food for the recovering nation.
Last week, he and his volunteers set up kitchens in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina – the most endangered parts of the state – just days before the storm.
According to CNN, the team has already delivered over 140,000 meals to dozens of shelters, police stations, response teams, neighborhoods, and families without access to food in the Carolinas.
Over the course of the last week, World Central Kitchen has reportedly been the only food relief operation that is currently serving on a large scale in the affected counties – and they still insisted on risking the weather in order to deliver their meals.
“Even though there is still a lot of flooding, I believe yesterday was more dangerous than today. I’m just glad the storm is finally over and people can start getting their lives back to normal,” he told CNN.
(WATCH the video below)
Feed Your Friends Some Positivity And Share The Good News – Photo by World Central Kitchen
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There can be a lot of emotional challenges that come from fighting cancer – but according to this charity, a little letter can be a big help in overcoming those obstacles.
Girls Love Mail is a nonprofit that asks strangers to write letters of love and encouragement to breast cancer patients.
Since the charity was launched in August 2011, there have been over 125,000 letters sent to cancer patients around the world. Letter writers have ranged from fourth graders to 90-year-olds across the US, plus Canada, Japan, Germany, Korea, Brazil, UK, Ireland, Australia, Malta, Burma, and The Netherlands.
Regardless of the author’s background, the letter recipients have been grateful for the messages of support.
“I received a note from a complete stranger and it was so powerful,” says one patient. “Now I keep the letter on my nightstand and read it every night before bed to gain strength. I’m amazed at the kindness in this world.”
The founder of Girls Love Mail, Gina Mulligan, says that she got the idea for the charity after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. At the time, the author had been working on a novel that was entirely made up of letters – and then she started receiving hundreds of hand-written well wishes and cards in the mail.
“Letters were all around me, and I realized letters are a precious gift with the power to heal,” says Gina.
She then started the charity with the intention of generating enough letters to send to every woman who receives a breast cancer diagnosis, which is roughly 250,000 per year. The charity’s Miles of Mail 2018 campaign hopes to garner at least 40,000 letters for the year.
Past studies have shown that positive phrasing can help hospital patients better deal with their symptoms and illnesses. In a more surprising case that was described as “unexplainable by western science”, this man is believed to have cured his rare form of stomach cancer by performing random acts of kindness for a year – so it’s no stretch of the imagination to believe that reading letters of love could help breast cancer patients heal as well.
If you would like to participate in the charity’s mission, you can visit the Girls Love Mail website for more details. Additionally, Mulligan has published a compilation book of the charity’s letters called “Dear Friend”, which is available on Amazon.
(WATCH the emotional 2017 footage below)
Cure Your Friends Of Negativity And Share The Inspiring Story To Social Media – Photo by Girls Love Mail
In light of how the stereotypical “homecoming queen” title has placed value on things like prettiness and popularity, these teens are ditching the school tradition in favor of something better.
The student council of Chelsea High School in Michigan have unanimously agreed to replace their homecoming queen tradition with a new “Excellence Award” that will instead recognize students based on their emotional, social, or academic attributes.
The students hope that the new award will help prevent bullying within the school. In the past, the homecoming queen process has been notorious for pitting girls against each other, hurting student feelings, and even being used for bullying purposes.
The school has been working to fight bullying since they launched their #WhyYouMatter campaign in 2016. The new Excellence Award, which will be unveiled at the homecoming football game later this week, is just another way in which the youngsters hope to reward and emphasize student kindness and character, regardless of gender.
Student Council President Drew Vanderspool says that the majority of the high school’s student body has welcomed the change.
“Previously with the homecoming queen award, we thought that it was saying that as a school we really valued the kids that were the prettiest or the most popular,” Vanderspool told Michigan Radio, “and we think that by changing the idea behind the award into the Chelsea Excellence Award, we’re saying as a high school that we value kids with character and kindness and school spirit above that, and we allow kids to be who they want to be without being judged or without feeling like they have to fit into certain categories here at CHS.”
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In one of the “biggest breaking stories of 2018” illustrating the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewables, a top power plant developer has just announced that it will be pivoting away from coal in favor of sustainable energy.
Japanese energy company Marubeni will no longer be building coal-powered plants. Instead, it will be doubling the sustainable energy capacity of its net power supply from 10% to 20% by 2023.
The conglomerate also plans on reducing its environmental impact by slashing its coal-powered energy of 3GW by half.
According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, the company plans to avoid job loss by reassigning their employees currently working on coal-related projects to their renewable energy initiatives as they develop.
“Marubeni Corporation recognizes that climate change is a major issue shared by all of humanity,” said the company in a statement detailing their new initiative. “It is a problem that threatens the co-existence of the global environment and society, a problem that has an enormous effect on Marubeni’s business and its shareholders, and a problem that Marubeni believes must be dealt with swiftly.”
Marubeni is already one of the driving masterminds behind the Noor Abu Dhabi project: the largest solar project in the Middle East and one of the cheapest solar projects in the world.
With the company currently ranked as the world’s 11th biggest coal power developer out of 120, the announcement is being hailed as a watershed victory for sustainability.
Energy finance specialist Tim Buckley made a post on Twitter saying that “this has to be one of the biggest breaking stories of 2018 in terms of energy transition.”
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This man is not driving a school bus so he can bring children to class – instead, he is using it as a makeshift Noah’s Ark for all the dogs and cats left behind during hurricanes.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas back in 2017, Tony Alsup heard about all of the animals who were in need of rescuing from the danger area. So he simply bought a school bus, ripped out the seats, filled the passenger area floor-to-ceiling with kennels, and started picking up as many shelter animals as he could fit into the cages.
According to The Washington Post, he used the bus during Hurricane Irma as well. When his bus was unable to help with Hurricane Maria battering Puerto Rico, he volunteered to look after horses.
Now, the 51-year-old trucker been piloting his bus across North and South Carolina to rescue shelter pets from Hurricane Florence.
Last week, Alsup rescued 64 animals from 4 different shelters in just two days. He then brought all the animals to his friend’s animal shelter in Alabama before turning around and heading back up the coast so he could pick up more animals.
“I’m like, look, these are lives too,” Alsup told The Post during a pit stop. “Animals — especially shelter pets — they always have to take the back seat of the bus. But I’ll give them their own bus. If I have to I’ll pay for all the fuel, or even a boat, to get these dogs out of there.”
Saint Frances Animal Shelter from Georgetown County, South Carolina praised Alsup’s efforts on social media, saying: “Tony swooped in at 4am Wednesday morning to pick up our ‘leftovers‘ – the dogs with blocky heads, the ones with heartworm. The ones no one else will ever take. And he got them to safety.
“Not the most conventional evacuation, but surely the one with the most heart,” they added.
(WATCH the interview below)
Be Sure And Share The Pawesome Story With Your Friends – Photo by Tony Alsup
Quote of the Day: “When life looks like it’s falling apart, it may just be falling in place.” – Beverly Solomon
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What started as a modest literacy project in 2009 has grown into a worldwide phenomenon: Little Free Libraries.
Little Free Libraries are tiny houses filled with books that can be placed in people’s front yards so that neighbors can take and leave books at their leisure. The libraries ensure that – no matter a person’s place, income, or circumstances – they can always have access to a good book.
Todd Bol created the nonprofit in 2009 after placing one of the boxes in his own front yard. Now nine years later, the charity is celebrating its 75,000th Little Free Library which was placed in Jenks, Oklahoma in late August.
“With 75,000 Little Libraries around the world, we estimate that 54 million books will be shared this year alone and 900,000 neighbors will meet each other for the first time,” says Bol. “But book access remains a critical challenge in so many communities around the country. We believe everyone has the right to read, and we want to help make that a reality.”
The libraries have been placed in 88 countries around the world. At Jenks East Elementary, a community of more than 1,600 elementary school students, more than 67% of the pupils qualify for free and reduced lunch and 25% are English-language learners. The student body includes resettled refugees from Myanmar as well as immigrants from Mexico, Syria, China, Puerto Rico, Korea, Russia and Iran.
This is just one example of a community that can benefit from the joys of free books. Similar community-sharing ideas have also manifested in the form of “Little Free Pantries” and “driveway art galleries”.
An 83-year-old man is being hailed as a hero after he successfully managed to fight off three assailants from robbing a bookies earlier this week.
Irish great-grandfather Denis O’Connor was at Bar One Racing in Glanmire, County Cork when three people wearing balaclavas charged into the building, two of them wielding hammers and one of them holding a gun.
While the men with the hammers started to harass the man behind the counter, the man with the gun kept his weapon trained on the gamblers.
“You can either run and hide or take a stand and I took a stand. The two with the hammers had jumped in and were threatening Tim, the manager, and I decided to go and help him,” the great-grandfather told the Irish Sun.
“Tim the manager is a very nice young man and I just couldn’t not help him. I ignored the fellow with the gun and I went behind the counter. I just didn’t think about what I was doing.
“Sometimes you can just sit down and do nothing or you can stand up to people like these and that’s what I did,” he added.
O’Connor, who is a retired mechanic-fitter and father of five, proceeded to grab one of the assailants and pull them out from behind the counter. As he forced them out of the building, Tim managed to fight off the other hammer-wielding assailant.
As the final would-be burglar was running out of the building after his companions, O’Connor managed to deliver a swift kick to the man’s backside, which he says “felt really good.”
O’Connor works out at the gym several times a week, going for swims and walks that are several miles long. He is also turning 85 years old next month.
Though O’Connor says that his was wife of 60 years was not very pleased by his actions, Tim has called the pensioner a hero and thanked him for intervening when he did.
(WATCH the video below)
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On a sleepless night in 2011, a Southern California surfer was staring at his quiver of surfboards unhappy with the quality and integrity of the bags that protected them. They were unimaginative, all manufactured overseas, and none of them used recycled material. Then, his gaze fell to an old sail lying on the floor. It was part of a set design destined for the stage—and, later, the landfill. He suddenly had an idea.
After much research, fed by his passions for surfing, sailing, and designing, Jeffrey Wapner launched a company in his hometown of Santa Barbara to create stylish, durable, and sustainable surfboard bags and carry-all totes.
Paradise Divided Into Blue and Green upcycles old sails, anchor lines, vintage fabric, and post-consumer materials, all sourced locally—and sews them into handmade bags on site. The company just opened an e-commerce store online, after launching in retail stores in Japan.
“I wanted to give these sails, originally designed to be used at sea, a second chance at romance with the wind, salt, and sand,” says Wapner.
Wapner’s aesthetic priority is to allow the materials to dictate the design: “Every sail tells its own story, and I try to honor the original design—for example, the traditional zig-zag stitching—into every component.”
His priority for sustainability dictated that he find a source for recycled foam to protect the board, and eco-friendly zippers. He even found upcyled zipper pulls.
Now, every surfer who has a deep connection to the Earth can purchase bags true to their environmental character. Learn more at intoblueandgreen.com.
– Co-written with Morgan Balavage, @splendid.yoga in Santa Barbara
Quote of the Day: “Ultimately, what really matters is the love you give, the love you receive, and the love you leave.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
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To encourage youth leadership, the Creative Arts Emmys invited “Kids for Peace” representatives to join media networks in covering the Red Carpet in Los Angeles last week.
Participating in the event, in the lead-up to the 70th annual Primetime Emmys Monday night on NBC, was a dream come true for the two teens. They rehearsed their camera moves and honed their focus to one single question they would ask celebs and artists: “How do you think your work in the arts is helping to create a better world?”
18-year-old Shivanii Ray, the group’s spokesperson, and Eli Bensen, 15, who operated the camera, have both participated for years in programs run by the nonprofit, Kids for Peace, which has an active network of 10 million youth in 121 countries around the world.
The chance to practice courage and poise on the Red Carpet, however, seems to have been their favorite peace project to date.
When the Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, and producer Melvin Jackson Jr. (The Wire) met the eager youth, he exclaimed, “You had me at Kids for Peace.”
He and his wife, Kelly Jenrette, are the first African-American married couple to be nominated for an Emmy in the same year.
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“He was one of my favorite interviews because of his warm smile and genuine interest in what we’re doing,” said Bensen.
Scheduled as a presenter onstage during the evening’s gala was the Kids for Peace Celebrity Ambassador, Giancarlo Esposito, who is an award-winning film and television actor (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Do the Right Thing) who understands the importance of what the kids are trying to do. Beyond chatting with them on the Red Carpet, he is joining them in a global campaign beginning next week—called #DoItForPeace—which aims to galvanize a billion people to do acts of peace within ten days, for which Good News Network and Peace One Day are major partners.
Topping off their experience, was a serendipitous drop-the-mic-moment with the wildly fun talk show host James Corden backstage. After receiving two Creative Arts Emmys, which honors outstanding artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television genres, he happily posed with the Kids For Peace sign, with the message of “Peace begins with you!”
The hashtag on the sign, as well social media posts this week, are inspiring people to sign up to become ignitors in the #DoItForPeace campaign which launches September 21, 2018, on the International Day of Peace. DoItForPeace.org has a goal to activate a critical mass of 1 billion people to shift global consciousness and make peace a reality.
Get involved by making a peace sign, helping a stranger, or any other act of peace, and post about it online with the hashtag #DoItForPeace, and ask your friends to do the same. Watch a spinning globe light up during the ten days on our GNN #DIFP page, in the locations people are hashtagging— and see videos and photos as they are posted.
Together, we can make an impact greater than a television show honored on the red carpet.
The campaign’s biggest sponsor is TaTaTu, a new entertainment platform launched by Italian filmmaker Andrea lervolino that rewards users for watching free movies and gaming online with advertisers paying users in blockchain-based cryptocurrency tokens—and additional tokens being earned whenever they get friends to join and watch, too. This #DoItFoPeace sponsorship is the company’s first foray into social causes as part of TaTaTu’s larger push into community activism & global stewardship.
The female physicist responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century is finally getting the recognition she deserves, after a man earned the Nobel Prize, instead of her. Hear The Good News Guru tell the inspiring story (from the September 14, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio in Los Angeles).
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Working as a lone woman in the physics department at Cambridge University, she was responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, but she hasn’t been recognized until now.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell spent years being ridiculed in the 60s for being a woman in a man’s world, laying miles of cables to set up the radio astronomy equipment that allowed her to gaze at the skies behind a telescope.
Under the direction of a man, Antony Hewish, a scientist who was searching for quasars (bright objects with unknown origins), the grad student pored over the data for months.
Then, one day in 1967, she discovered four gently pulsing sources of radio waves that were emanating from different points in the galaxy—and knew she’d discovered something important.
The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland had discovered pulsars: rapidly spinning and highly-magnetized stars that are the size of San Francisco, but with the mass of the sun.
Her discovery was published in a reputable scientific journal, but her advisor’s name was listed as the first author.
Despite all her work, Hewish and another man were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “their decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”—because students weren’t eligible even to be acknowledged.
“I think he expected me to be angry,” Bell Burnell told The Washington Post. Yet she was proud that her stars motivated the Nobel committee for the first time to recognize the field of astronomy with the notable physics prize.
Now, nearly a half century after her discovery, Burnell has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics along with a $3 million prize. Only four of these prizes have ever been awarded, with previous winners including Stephen Hawking, the scientists responsible for the Higgs boson, and the research collaboration that first detected gravitational waves.
She was “literally speechless” when she heard the news—but her fellow scientists have been quick to applaud the decision.
“Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars will always stand as one of the great surprises in the history of astronomy,” said Edward Witten, the chair of the Selection Committee. “Until that moment, no one had any real idea how neutron stars could be observed, if indeed they existed…something that has led to many later advances.”
“Professor Bell Burnell thoroughly deserves this recognition,” wrote Yuri Milner, one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize. “Her curiosity, diligent observations and rigorous analysis revealed some of the most interesting and mysterious objects in the Universe.”
To pay homage to the struggles she went through as a woman, Burnell says she will use the prize money to create a scholarship for women, minority, and refugee grad students.
Be Sure And Pass On The Inspiring Scientific Story To Your Friends – Photo by Robin Scagell and the Breakthrough Foundation
The Hoover Dam is one of the great engineering marvels of America – and soon, it may be a 20th century solution for storing renewable energy.
Even as one of the sunniest states, California has struggled to utilize the vast amount of solar energy penetrating its blue skies. One of the problems is that there is no efficient way to store all the solar and wind power during times of high production, so California sends their excess energy to other states to avoid overloading their grid.
This means that—later on—when the Sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, California turns to fossil fuels to meet demand.
This is where the Hoover Dam comes in. The Hoover Dam Proposal aims to build a wind and solar-powered pump station 20 miles south of the dam so that it can pump water from downstream back up to Lake Mead (which feeds the dam). All the water stored at the lake can then be released for power on demand, effectively turning the dam into a battery for solar and wind power.
“[The] Hoover Dam is ideal for this,” said Kelly Sanders, assistant professor at the University of Southern California, according to The New York Times. “It’s a gigantic plant. We don’t have anything on the horizon as far as batteries of that magnitude.”
The Hoover Dam water load currently only functions at about 20% of its full capacity. With the added water from downstream, pumped reliably by wind and solar, the dam stands to be the fulcrum that Southern California turns to for green power.
Sri Narayan, who is a chemistry professor at the university, said that lithium-ion batteries simply aren’t ready to store all the wind and solar power being produced and the Hoover Dam project should be given consideration as pumped storage projects have been proven to work in the past.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti added that he would like his city to be the first to run entirely on renewable energy.
“Our challenge is: How do we get to 100 percent green?” he said. “Storage helps. There’s no bigger battery in our system than Hoover Dam.”
In order to move ahead with the dam proposal, research committees are evaluating the environmental and infrastructural impacts of the project to ensure that the pump house will not disrupt the local ecosystem or communities on the Arizona-Nevada border. If approved, the Los Angeles Department of Wind and Power hopes to complete the project by 2028.
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People are always telling children not to talk to strangers – but everyone is glad that little Isaiah Miller didn’t follow that advice in a sports stadium.
In September, 2018, Isaiah’s aunt, Star Balloon-Bradley, brought her nephew to a football game when he wandered up into the stands and started chatting with a woman whom he’d never met before. Not only did he end up crawling into her lap, they were also “talking like they knew each other.”
Unfortunately, the woman left before Aunt Star could catch her name—but then, weeks later, she spotted the same football fan sitting in the stands once more.
“Not long after we sat down at the game, Isaiah spotted her,” wrote Balloon-Bradley. “She waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time, but I was wrong. Isaiah walked right up to her, crawled into her lap and laid his head down on her shoulder. She welcomed him with open arms.”
“This lady patted and rocked Isaiah to sleep like she had given birth to him. It was the sweetest! We asked her if she wanted us to get him but she kept telling us she was fine! Isaiah and this lady has NEVER met before, other than those 20 mins at a game 2 weeks ago.”
Posted with permission from Aunt Star, Isaiah’s mom, and Angela
Balloon-Bradley snapped a photo of the exchange and later posted it to Facebook where it was shared thousands of times.
She said that she tried to approach the woman and apologize for her nephew bothering her, but the woman – Mrs. Angela During – insisted that Isaiah was her new friend, and she was more than happy to spend time with him.
“She then went on to say she only has one child who is 15 and moments like this are priceless!” said Balloon-Bradley. “With all of the racial tension that’s going on, I’m glad to see the pictures like these because it goes to show color don’t matter to a lot of people… Arguing over stuff…makes us miss the simple pleasures in life.”
Quote of the Day: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
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A lot of people have heard the legends regarding Bill Murray’s off-camera shenanigans – but soon, there will be a documentary that explores the truth about these celebrity photo bombs.
Production company Gravitas Ventures has released a trailer for a new documentary called The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man directed by Tommy Avallone.
“The documentary follows one man’s journey to find meaning in Bill Murray’s many unexpected adventures with everyday people,” says the trailer description. “Featuring rare and never-before seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend.
See a few of our favorite Murray moments here—like the time he got in a taxi for an extended ride, and ended up driving the vehicle so the cabbie could practice playing his saxophone in the backseat.
“Whether it be singing karaoke late at night with strangers or crashing a kickball game in the middle of the afternoon, Bill Murray lives in the moment and by doing so, creates magic with real people.”
Gravitas Ventures says their film is “coming soon”, so you may want to follow them on YouTube.
(WATCH the trailer below) — See Bill Murray’s movies and merch on Amazon
Artificial intelligence has just proven itself to be a life saver for vegetative hospital patients.
A team of China’s best neurologists recently tested their assessments of coma patients in contrast to an AI system. After reviewing the varying conditions of seven patients in Beijing, the doctors rated the patients on a coma recovery scale. The patients were given very low scores, meaning that it was unlikely they would ever wake up and their families were legally allowed to take them off of life support.
The system, which was developed over the course of five years by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and PLA General Hospital, disagreed with the scientists and gave the patients close to full scores with a prediction that they would wake up within 12 months of the scan.
As it turns out, the AI was right – all seven patients woke up from their vegetative states within the year.
The system, which reportedly has an 88% success rate of diagnosis, achieves its efficiency based on its ability to see “invisible” details in hundreds of human brain images. In contrast, the current method of assessing a patient’s chances of recovery are based on subjective reactionary tests and judging certain factors, such as age and the condition of the brain.
Scientists believe that – with its carefully calculated machine-algorithms – the AI could be an invaluable tool for physicians to diagnose patients more accurately in the future.
“We have successfully predicted a number of patients who regained consciousness after being initially determined to have no hope of recovery,” said the researchers in a statement.
“At present, there are more than 500,000 patients with chronic disturbance of consciousness caused by brain trauma, stroke, and hypoxic encephalopathy with an annual increase of 70,000 to 100,000 patients in China, which brings great mental pain and a heavy economic burden to families and society.
“The possible prediction of the recovery of patient consciousness will directly affect the choice of clinical treatment strategies, and even the choice of life or death by the patient’s relatives,” the team added.
The results of the tests have been published in the international science journal eLife.
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Three English sailors are being praised for their dedication and kindness tword an Uber driver in Florida earlier this week.
As 51-year-old Bonnie Ginter was preparing to pick up the seamen in Jacksonville, she was worried about her headlight after a previous passenger had mentioned that one of the bulbs in the 2007 Honda Fit had burnt out. As with many modern vehicles, replacing a simple bulb was not a simple operation—and normally required the bumper to be removed.
“I was informed right before I picked them up that I had a headlight out and I was concerned because I needed to replace it or else quit working for the night until I got it fixed,” Ginter wrote on Facebook.
Ginter then picked up the three English passengers and – as they chatted in the car – she mentioned her car problems.
The young sailors, who said that they worked in the engineering department of the ship, insisted on stopping the car so they could replace the bulb for Ginter.
“I was amazed that they would consider taking the time to fix something for someone they didn’t know at all,” says Ginter. “So we went over to the Auto Zone store and they went in and asked for some tools to begin to change the headlight bulb … which really isn’t an easy task because the front bumper is supposed to be removed to change it, but they were pretty skillful and managed to change it without having to remove the bumper.
“In the dense humidity and heat, being pretty uncomfortable and sweating, yet without one complaint, they gave their time to help out a stranger and I will never forget their kindness,” she added.
Hundreds of social media users rejoiced in the sweet story, as news outlets were simultaneously reporting on several sailors from the HMS Queen Elizabeth who were arrested for drunkenly getting into trouble the very same week.
“It was all over the news about six sailors that got in trouble. That’s six, out of what, a couple thousand? That irritated me because all of the ones that I met were funny, kind, and just plain good guys,” said Ginter, according to The Daily Mail.
“I just wanted them to be the ones that got noticed—not the ones who got in trouble.”
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