Wednesday Hero

This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Malinda

69-year-old Bert Brady has never stepped foot in Iraq or Afghanistan, yet many soldiers who have know who he is and appreciate what he’s done for them. You see, for the past year Mr. Brady has made a trip to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport nearly every morning to welcome home returning American troops. Bert Brady, along with fellow veterans, is a member of the Welcome Home a Hero program. They make sure that every soldier who steps off a plane in Dallas gets a special homecoming.

Brady shows up each day with the goal of making soldiers feel appreciated and proud of their service. He’s often joined by veterans of the Vietnam and Korean wars who did not get a warm reception when they returned from battle.

“We are not going to forget them like a lot of Vietnam soldiers have been forgotten,” Brady said. “We are not going to forget the soldiers of today.”

To read more about Bert Brady, you can go to ABCnews.com

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Goodbye Mr. Wizard

He was one of the earliest influences in my life I can remember outside of my parents. I was even able to see Don Herbert do a live performance of sorts at one of my elementary schools. I watched his show religiously as a kid. He passed on today at the age of 89.

Some things I didn’t know about the man:

Herbert was a general science and English major at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse who was interested in drama, until his career as an actor was interrupted by World War II when he joined the United States Army as a private. He later became an officer and joined the United States Army Air Corps and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew 56 missions with the Fifteenth Air Force and participated in the invasion of Italy. When Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.

Herbert won a Peabody Award for his work on Watch Mr. Wizard.

I would suggest that of the “TV Scientists for Kids,” Mr. Wizard was the best, better than Bill Nye the Science Guy or Beakman’s World.