Oseola McCarty was just five feet tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds. She quit school in the 6th grade when her grandmother that raised her became ill and needed care. “I would have gone back.” she said, “But the people in my class had done gone on, and I was too big. I […]

On a quiet winter evening in 1992, a car pulled up in front of a humble house in Rockford, Michigan. Stepping out into the snow was a woman wrapped in a long wool coat, her head bowed against the chill. That woman was Elizabeth Montgomery. Inside the house, resting in a hospice bed set up […]

I got off the plane and saw my husband right away. As I walked closer, I noticed my son holding something—then I read what it said…

It’s the summer of 1940 in Pie Town, New Mexico—a place where the sun bakes the earth, and life requires both patience and imagination. Inside her home, Mrs. Caudill carefully arranges glass jars of fresh milk inside a simple wooden crate. She doesn’t have the luxury of an electric refrigerator; instead, she wraps the box […]

In the early morning of September 5, 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked while on the ground in Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists. Amid the sudden panic and confusion, 22-year-old senior flight attendant Neerja Bhanot acted with remarkable composure. Without drawing attention, she managed to alert the cockpit by discreetly punching in the […]