Recently, I had the occasion to attend a lecture entitled 10 steps to happiness. The first step the speaker talked about was to express gratitude. The lecture came to mind as I read two stories in the news today about rescue attempts. We must be grateful to those who put their lives in danger to help save another human being.
The grateful mother of the 2-year-old girl plucked from the East River by a French tourist would be willing to pay for the humble savior's plane ticket back to New York.
"I want to give him my heartfelt gratitude," Kathleen Sheridan told the Daily News yesterday. "The next time he comes back to the U.S., I would give him my frequent-flier miles so he can have a ticket for free. He saved my daughter's life."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/04/08/2010-04-08_i_want_to_thank_hero_says_mom.html#ixzz0kVwuIHjC
Rescue crews began working their way through a West Virginia coal mine early Thursday in search of four miners missing since a blast killed 25 colleagues.
Gov. Joe Manchin say crews entered the Upper Big Branch mine about 30 miles south of Charleston at 4:55 a.m. EDT and hoped to reach the area where they might find the missing miners sometime before noon.
"They are advancing," Manchin told an early morning news briefing. "They'll move as rapidly as they possibly can."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/04/08/2010-04-08_rescue_crews_descend_into_west_virginia_coal_mine_searching_for_victims.html#ixzz0kVxAe8ip
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