1000 musicians play “Learn to Fly” by Foo Fighters to ask Dave Grohl to come and play in Cesena, Italy
I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more
I thought of that song (which many incorrectly think is titled “I Would Walk 500 Miles”), but these folks did much more than that total.
A family, to honor their deceased daughter, walked 4,000 miles from Disneyland to Disney World.
Not even walking 4,000 miles across the United States can come close to the pain of losing a child.
At least, it isn’t close to the aching the Cobb family still feels every day almost two years after 8-year-old Julia died from a rare bone and tissue cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma.
For ten months, the family walked about 20 miles a day on its trek from Disneyland in Southern California, where it had gone months before Julia’s death, to Disney World in Orlando, where she died on her Make-A-Wish trip in October 2013. They became the first family to walk across the U.S. when they made it to Florida’s Magic Kingdom on June 21 — Father’s Day.
Throughout the 320-day, 4,000-mile journey, the caravan, including Jonathan’s wife Jennifer, their three kids and 14-year-old dog, stopped to speak at churches, schools and businesses. They wanted other families dealing with childhood cancer to know that they weren’t alone.
You can read the Palm Beach Post article in its entirety here.
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Heritage, not hate?
Confederate flags placed around King Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church
Several Confederate flags were found around the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church Thursday morning.
According to Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev. Raphael Warnock, Atlanta police and the National Parks Association have removed the flags from the campus. Atlanta police confirms four small flags were found laying on the property.
Atlanta police chief George Turner says surveillance video showed two white males placing the flags at the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Atlanta police say the people who placed the flags could face charges including criminal trespassing, terroristic threats and littering.
Ebenezer Baptist Church consists of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father, Martin Luther King, Sr., and he were pastors.
Some people who state the flag is about heritage have the best of intentions and don’t intend for there to be any malice, these are not those kind of people.