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Sgt. Navarro
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude
By Jack Byron
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~Joseph Campbell
“Can some of you take a little time to write to him? He is having such a rough time.” Bella’s words immediately touched my heart. She was writing about her nephew, Sgt. José Navarro, a young man who had been wounded in Afghanistan and was now at Walter Reed beginning what would be years of surgery and therapy.
I became acquainted with Bella through an online religion & spirituality forum and its companion social-media site. I had been taking part in the forum for a few years and had formed a number of friendships. The spiritual dimension of the forum appealed to me, finding as I did that people seemed to have a need to express the good in themselves. Given such a forum, people seemed to open up without hesitation, to lean on each other.
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