Category: People

World War II Fighter Pilot, 101, Recalls His Time in the Pacific

Arthur Leach is 101 years old.  Sometimes, age is just a number. Sometimes, it’s a story. Leach’s age is full of stories. When I interviewed Leach recently for The Sons of History’s collection of military interviews, I was given a bit more perspective into his age. Before we began recording our conversation, he told me…


Former Cop Who Saw Too Many Kids’ Lives End Badly Starts Christian School to Give Them 2nd Chance

A former Atlanta police officer decided to hang up his badge after seeing too many kids fall through the cracks of the system. They deserved a second chance. “I saw what most police officers see, the good and the bad,” Steve Finn, 51, told The Epoch Times. “I was seeing more and more young people…


Teen Honors His Late Mom in Touching Graduation Photoshoot: ‘She Was My Best Friend’

A Georgia teen has honored his late mom in a special photo shoot after he graduated a year early from high school. In late July as Kentavius “KJ” Morgan, 17, graduated from Northside High School in Warner Robins, he arranged a touching photoshoot where he donned a custom-made stole with pictures of his mother, Teresa…


Ukrainian Artist Paints Huge Flowers in Deliciously Larger-Than-Life Watercolors

Spreading color across surfaces spanning over a meter, a Ukrainian artist renders beautiful garden flowers that are larger than life. Using delicate watercolors to transfer nature’s pastels onto the page, her works are stirring the imagination of art lovers from all over. Born and raised in Odessa, Zhanna Pulcho, 24, was introduced to watercolors in…


Ohio Mom Finds, Reunites With Son She Gave Up for Adoption 33 Years Ago Through DNA Test

An Ohio woman and Virginia-based man have reunited 33 years after she gave him up for adoption as a newborn baby, through a DNA test that they both took. Greg Vossler, 33, traveled 300 miles from Winchester to Wadsworth to visit his birth mother, Melanie Pressley, in June 2021. Melanie, 53, hadn’t seen her son…


Video: Squirrel Enjoys Listening to a Professor of Music Practice His Saxophone at a Park

A heartwarming video of a squirrel watching attentively as a professor of music at Oklahoma Christian University practices his saxophone at a park has tugged at netizens’ heartstrings. “He acted like a little person and really seemed like he liked the music I was playing,” Heath Jones, 51, told The Epoch Times via email. Jones,…


Parents Gift Freshman Daughter Prank Comforter-Pillow Set With Family Printed on Them

While one Arkansas couple’s daughter pursues a nursing degree in college, her parents want her to think of home, and they gave her a hilarious going-away gift to remember them by. They might have gone too far. David and Whitney Scott gifted daughter Emma a comforter and a pillowcase—the blanket emblazoned with a larger-than-life fabric…


Memphis Man Sees Lady Struggling to Pay at Dollar General—so He Pays It Forward, Goes Viral

What started as a trip to the Dollar General to pick up a few T-shirts turned into a moment of internet fame for one young man from Tennessee. Over the summer, Caleb Duncan, 22, who lives just outside Memphis, picked up his purchase and was in the checkout line when he spotted a young lady…


Retired Chauffeur Celebrates 100th Birthday, Gifted the Luxury Bentley He Drove 60 Years Ago

The family of a retired chauffeur has helped celebrate his 100th birthday—by tracking down and buying the luxury Rolls Royce he drove 60 years ago. Eddie Hughes was given the powerful 6.25-litre V8-engined car by his family as a surprise birthday present. They tracked down the car in Beverly Hills, California, and paid 32,000 pounds…


Talented Egyptian Artist’s 3D Drawings Look So Real They Will Make You Do a Double-Take

As technology is capable of rendering believable realities in three dimensions, it is no easy feat for an artist with a pen and paper in his hands to do so. Yet one man from Egypt is doing just that. Born and raised in Alexandria, Mustafa Mohamed Samir Ragheb has loved drawing since he was a…