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Gregory Beck was on his way to his St. Louis home in his wheelchair when tornado sirens sounded. Beck lost both of his legs last year and is legally blind, according to CNN affiliate KMOV4. It would normally take him 25 minutes to get back home from the supermarket, and he would need to stop as many as 10 times to rest. "Everyone kept telling me the storm is coming and you need to hurry up and get home," Beck told the station. While other drivers honked and yelled at Beck as he tried to cross the street Tuesday and...

A Chicago McDonald’s employee who closed the register during the dinner rush to help a disabled customer is being praised by the fast food chain.

Regulating Volunteerism by Paul Weyrich Issue 104 - March 26, 2008When Alexis de Toqueville traveled through the United States in 1831 to observe American penal institutions, he wrote down his observations of American political and civil society. Four years later he published Democracy in America, one of the defining texts of early American history. He titled Section 2, Chapter 5, “Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life.” In it, he marveled that Americans “of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which...

A Texas monk is being hailed as a hero Wednesday after saving a female police officer's life during a struggle for control of her gun, according to a Local 6 News report. Officials said that the police officer in Linden, Tx., was attempting to arrest a suspect at a grocery store when the man grabbed her gun. Police said Patrick Coughlan, who is a monk, noticed the scuffle between the suspect and officer and raced to the woman's rescue. He grabbed the weapon and ordered the man to the ground at gunpoint. Coughlan said that he didn't even see the...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- The pilot known as the Candy Bomber for air-dropping handkerchief-tethered chocolate and gum to the children of Berlin in 1948 wants to do the same thing for the kids of Baghdad. "I'd give my right arm to do it," said retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen. "I've had the experience of the reaction of the kids on the ground. It's just incredible." When the Soviets formed a blockade around Berlin after World War II, Halvorsen and other U.S. pilots airlifted food, medicine and other supplies into the city. During that time, Halvorsen collected rations from his...

UNSUNG HEROES — The Iraqi family that provided vital information in the rescue of POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rest at Camp Liberty, Iraq, April 3. The family was welcomed by Marines, who greeted them with food, clothing and an American flag. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. L.A. Salinas More News Photos (4) Iraqi Family Risks Their Lives To Save American Army POW By U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly / 1st Marine Expeditionary Force      MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Iraq, April 3, 2003 — New heroes have surfaced in the rescue of U.S. Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch.     Under the...

As the war continues, secular media outlets are focusing on the resistance of Iraqis to the coalition's campaign. However, other accounts are slowly coming out which challenge those reports.The Washington Times has relayed the story of a recent encounter between a group of U.S. Marines and two busloads of Iraqi citizens fleeing the heavy fighting in central Iraq. When they stopped at a Marine camp, the women who got off the bus prepared a feast for the Marines who have been living off rations for days.The banquet included slaughtered lambs and chickens, as well as boiled eggs and potatoes that...

Soldier Salutes His 'Guardian Angel'March 31, 2003 While Spec. Brandon Bean was at war in Iraq, the grandmother who helped to rear him lost her own battle with cancer. Bean found out about the death when CBS Correspondent Phil Ittner gave his cell phone to the specialist in the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division. Correspondents with the troops in Iraq and Kuwait have been loaning their cell phones to soldiers to allow as many as possible to phone home. “He was pretty shook up when he realized he wasn't going to be able to come home and that he wasn't...

DIWANIYA, Iraq, March 30 — The first Iraqis walked in off the plains at sunrise, a group of nomads with their camels in tow. Then came a young farmer, bearing a white flag. "I have come to get water," said the man, Khalid Juwad, staring into the rifles of several young marines. "I am willing to cooperate." And so the Americans lowered their guns, and Mr. Juwad walked across the front lines, becoming one of the first Iraqis to meet American soldiers here in something other than combat. With so much of the American effort spent racing across empty deserts,...

<p>Iraqi civilians fleeing heavy fighting have stunned and delighted hungry US marines in central Iraq by giving them food, as guerrilla attacks continue to disrupt coalition supply lines to the rear.</p> <p>CENTRAL IRAQ (AFP) - Iraqi civilians fleeing heavy fighting have stunned and delighted hungry US marines in central Iraq by giving them food, as guerrilla attacks continue to disrupt coalition supply lines to the rear.</p>