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This is a story about my kidney donor, Dennis, one of those rare, fine individuals who turns an ordinary life into heroism. I met Dennis strictly by chance, very much like throwing a bottle into the

Volunteer Mary Parry, 85, recalls sitting at her USO desk at Fort Drum, a U.S. Army base near Watertown, N.Y. (pop. 26,705), in 2006 when a young soldier from Alabama approached with tears in his eyes.

Two heavy-duty mixers rest on Jeanette Cram’s kitchen countertop in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (pop. 33,862), waiting to prepare dozens of chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin or snickerdoodle cookies.

Annin & Co. stitches Old Glory for the nation

Freedom. It started so small. So small, in fact, that we can't be sure where it started at all.

A Partriotic Vigil: Watching Over the Graves of Fallen Soldiers