Make A Wish foundation grants awesome final wish
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Posted on: 2010-11-20 20:51 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
this is awesome. in fact, this may actually be BEYOND awesome.
Talk about the greatest thing anyone could do for someone else, it's making a wish come true. It brought a tear to my eye. Make a Wish Foundation is the greatest, hands down!! They are REAL Superheroes.
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interesting juxtaposition (i used a big word woot!) when just a few days there was that whole "these masked people are dangerous"
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This is the...3rd time I've read a story about them doing this for a kid. And it's always cool. |
Originally Posted by Snickerdoodle
Not really sure if this is relevant to the forums, but I figure hero-themed, so I vote yes. It is so great that the whole city helped make this little guy's wish come true...
http://io9.com/5529877/childs-final-...ull-read-today |
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That is the most unbelievably awesome thing I have read in too long a time.
Just when you start to feel dead inside with all the desensitizing garbage all over the news, something like this happens.
Un-freakin'-believable.
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Just when I start to lose faith in humanity something happens like this...
This was actually a couple of months ago and they really did it up huge, shutting down entire highways for the kid's motorcade, police and fire escorts, sports teams involved as participants, hundreds (by some estimates THOUSANDS) of "civillians" getting into the act with signs and lining roadways, even some of the guys from "Deadlest Catch" got involved playing bad guys and a couple of radio and TV stations got into the act without being asked by Make-A-Wish and reran the "bad guy demands" tapes along with news stories and "blow-by-blow" footage and commentary of Electron Boy's exploits.
Even the kid who wished for it looks utterly flabbergasted in many of the photos that they pulled off something so big. An old college buddy who lives out there was on the opposing lane of the highway when the motorcade came through and people were actually puilling over and waving homemade signs as the Delorean passed by.
Make-A-Wish really outdid themselves with that one and the city got pretty much behind the fantasy wholeheartedly.
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Kudos for posting this. |
Originally Posted by Snickerdoodle
Not really sure if this is relevant to the forums, but I figure hero-themed, so I vote yes. It is so great that the whole city helped make this little guy's wish come true...
http://io9.com/5529877/childs-final-...ull-read-today |
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So... this was a city-wide RP event.
Nice.
I wonder what their criteria is for choosing a kid since it seems like a lottery for only terminally ill children.
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I especially like that someone made a sign with The Swedish Chef!
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Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
That is the most unbelievably awesome thing I have read in too long a time.
Just when you start to feel dead inside with all the desensitizing garbage all over the news, something like this happens. Un-freakin'-believable. |
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Thats so awesome!
So sweet, I cried a little.
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2.5 for 18 years old and able to pass "medical criteria" (IE dying) and not having had a wish granted by a similar organization. The Medical Criteria varies slightly from illness to illness, for instance, the child also has to be "medically able" to take part in the wish itself.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
I wonder what their criteria is for choosing a kid since it seems like a lottery for only terminally ill children.
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I'm so impressed by this. The next time my annual contributions come through my work for payroll deductions, I'm choosing Make-a-wish.
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Not really sure if this is relevant to the forums, but I figure hero-themed, so I vote yes. It is so great that the whole city helped make this little guy's wish come true...
http://io9.com/5529877/childs-final-...ull-read-today
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