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Recently Posted American Stories
Job Saver
Jack Copley saw cutbacks coming. That was his job, reviewing budgets for a telephone company. There were 53-hundred empty desks around him. He figured his work, too, might disappear. One thing he had learned. Not to be a victim. Copley set out to find Bell Atlantic a new source of income, enough to maintain his pay. For all the hours Jack worked, he didn’t even make minimum wage. His daughter made more baby sitting. But he bombarded Bell with ideas. One stuck.
The Good Guys Ride Bikes
The Good Guys Ride Bikes
All John Finello ever wanted was to ride a motorcycle. It carried him away from school in the 10th grade. He never returned. That free life John chased so loudly had some unexpected snares. Heroin. Cocaine. And booze. He started stealing to support his habits. Finally, was arrested for armed robbery in Saugus, Massachusetts.
“The only thing left for me was either death or prison,” Finello said.
But a remarkable thing happened. He found a job. Got married. And became a dad. He was free of the alcohol and drugs that held him half his life. John and his biker friends decided to form a group that did not get high and began making converts. There are 70 of them now, counseling high school kids.
Bulldog’s Pickers
Bulldog’s Pickers
An aging group of friends moved to south Texas one winter because they didn’t like weather they had to lift. The friends noticed that machines only harvested one vegetable at a time. They missed a lot. On one farm in the Rio Grande Valley, 6 million pounds of vegetables — that were too small or too ripe — were left to be plowed under. So the elderly went after them, gathering left over vegetables for the poor.
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- SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
“Throughout his remarkable career Bob Dotson has searched for the real essence of America – not by interviewing the so-called famous but by seeking out those unnoticed people we pass by every day. Dotson is a national treasure for caring enough to listen.”
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