Unsung hero's

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James Harrison

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html

He donated blood every week for 60 years and saved the lives of 2.4 million babies

We really need to hear more stories like this.

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WENDELL SMITH

https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/wendell-smith/345

Late in 1945, Smith and Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey discussed the possibility of signing a black player. It was Smith who first suggested Jackie Robinson to Rickey. At Smith's recommendation and after extensive Dodgers scouting and face-to-face meetings, Rickey signed Jackie and assigned him to the Montreal Royals, a triple-A minor league club. Rickey then hired Smith to travel with Jackie throughout the 1946 and 1947 seasons to offer support and counsel. All the while, Smith continued to write his regular columns for the Pittsburgh Courier.

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Desmond Doss

Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector in WWII but he still wanted to serve just not carry a gun. He became a field medic and because of his action one night on a mountaintop in Okinawa, he saved 75 wounded men by lowering them off a cliff basically right under the Japanese's noses. He became the first conscientious objector to win the nation's highest award the Medal Of Honor.
A wonderful movie was made about him and this amazing event 'Hacksaw Ridge'

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hacksaw-ridge/

https://www.patriotspoint.org/news-and-events/the-first-conscientious-objector-medal-of-honor-recipient/

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hacksaw-ridge/