After 5-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with an inoperable kind of cancer, she managed to spread a message of hope and healing.
Elena knew that every coming day would be a gift, not to be wasted, so she created a to-do list of sorts -- swim with dolphins, drive a car and more.
Josh Stieber was in middle school when 9/11 was on the news; he vowed to enlist in the army after graduating high school, and sure enough, by 2007, he was deployed to Baghdad. What he saw transformed him:
After losing her leg in a brutal war, Maja Kazazic thought she'd never walk without pain again. Then she saw the dolphin with an artificial tail, and her life changed once more.