{"id":498,"date":"2006-05-23T22:46:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T22:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/it_wasnt_all_ba.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:45","slug":"it_wasnt_all_ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/it_wasnt_all_ba.shtml","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn’t All Bad …"},"content":{"rendered":"

More from the inside cover of The Week<\/a>, in their “It Wasn’t All Bad” section. Two stories out of three were blog-able.
\nStory one:<\/p>\n

Two Massachusetts women whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 are using the financial support they received afterward to assist widows of the civil war in Afghanistan. Susan Retik, 38, and Patti Quigley, 42, created Beyond the 11th<\/a>, a nonprofit foundation, and have already donated $170,000 to charities helping Afghan widows. Last week, Quigley and Retik spent 6 days in Afghanistan, where they met some of the recipients of their donations. “We wanted people to understand that these widows were widows because of the same terrorists that affected our husbands<\/strong>,” said Quigley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Story two:<\/p>\n

David Davis, 16, had been bouncing around detention centers and foster homes in the Atlanta area since he was 7. He had always responded to crises with his fists, and once was suspended for bringing a knife to school. But soon after moving to the Haven Academy in 2004, he found that his teacher, Barbara Stephens, was getting through to him. “If I had to give up something, I would give up my bad behavior to live with Ms. Stephens,” he wrote in an essay. Deeply moved, Stephens and her husband decided to adopt Davis, and on Sunday they celebrated their first Mother’s day together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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