Hello Lee. I am a public relations students at Auburn University and was scrolling through your blogs when I came across this blog, I guess the title caught my eye. As I read it, I have to say, it did bring a tear to my eye. And when I got to the bottom, I smiled. Because like the footnote said, there are many vulgar emails that travel through people's emails like wildfire. This is a story that renews my faith in people. It may or may not be true, but things like this really happen in this world of ours.
I guess one thing I should mention is that I spent my entire summer at a camp that is for children and adults with special needs. They get to ride horses and go down a zipline and do things that they would never be able to do anywhere else. But as great as the campers I got to meet were, it was the staff that worked with me all summer, who fed the campers who couldn't feed themselves, that transferred a camper from a wheelchair to the back of a horse, and that slept holding a crying camper's hand all night because they were homesick. At Camp ASCCA, stories like this happen everyday and makes you think that maybe there are some good people left in this world. To check out stories about what goes on at ASCCA go to http://www.campascca.org/journal/.
Thanks for posting this story. It made my day.
Dan York
· 3 years ago
Lee,
> This story, sent to me by Bruce Macky, may be an > urban myth or it may not. I don’t care; it’s > still a powerful story.
I agree it's a powerful story... I checked at Snopes.com and it's not quite an "urban myth", but does seem to be a variation on a message that has been circulating around the Internet since 2000, and in fact seems to come from a story in a 1999 book "Echoes of the Maggid" by Rabbi Paysach Krohn.
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Love & Peace, Clarence
Ed
I guess one thing I should mention is that I spent my entire summer at a camp that is for children and adults with special needs. They get to ride horses and go down a zipline and do things that they would never be able to do anywhere else. But as great as the campers I got to meet were, it was the staff that worked with me all summer, who fed the campers who couldn't feed themselves, that transferred a camper from a wheelchair to the back of a horse, and that slept holding a crying camper's hand all night because they were homesick. At Camp ASCCA, stories like this happen everyday and makes you think that maybe there are some good people left in this world. To check out stories about what goes on at ASCCA go to http://www.campascca.org/journal/.
Thanks for posting this story. It made my day.
> This story, sent to me by Bruce Macky, may be an
> urban myth or it may not. I don’t care; it’s
> still a powerful story.
I agree it's a powerful story... I checked at Snopes.com and it's not quite an "urban myth", but does seem to be a variation on a message that has been circulating around the Internet since 2000, and in fact seems to come from a story in a 1999 book "Echoes of the Maggid" by Rabbi Paysach Krohn.
Full details are here:
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/chush.htm
Dan