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The One-Armed Outfielder
When Pete Gray was six, he was hitching a ride on the running board of a produce truck. The driver stopped suddenly, Gray fell, and his right arm got caught in the wheel spokes.
The Seventh Grader Who Stopped the Bus
One afternoon in April 2023 in Warren, Michigan, a school bus driver called the transportation base to say she felt dizzy and needed to pull over.
The Subway Superman
On January 2, 2007, construction worker Wesley Autrey was standing on a Manhattan subway platform with his two little girls. A young film student named Cameron Hollopeter had a seizure and fell onto the tracks just as a train's headlights appeared.
The Trainer Who Ran onto the Field
On January 2, 2023, in front of a national TV audience, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin made a tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals, stood up, and collapsed.
The Village That Hid Thousands
During World War II, the little French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the farms around it became a refuge. Led by Pastor André Trocmé, his wife Magda, and his assistant Pastor Edouard Theis, ordinary church people took in an estimated 5,000 refugees, about 3,000 to 3,500 of them Jews fleeing the Vichy government and the Germans.
Tyndale’s Last Prayer
In 1523 William Tyndale asked the bishop of London for permission to translate the New Testament into English. The bishop said no.
Vincent Coleman Sent One Last Message
On the morning of December 6, 1917, a French munitions ship caught fire in Halifax Harbour. Train dispatcher Vincent Coleman learned the burning ship could explode.
Wallenberg’s Paper Shields
In the summer of 1944, nearly 200,000 Jews were still left in Budapest, and the authorities planned to deport them too. Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman with no diplomatic experience at all, arrived on July 9 as a diplomat at the Swedish legation.