November 1982, 10 year old Samantha noticed a Time magazine cover featuring the newly appointed Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. The girl was concerned about the threat of nuclear war she asked her mother why no one simply asked Andropov if he wanted war. Samantha's mother encouraged her to write to him directly.Samantha sent a simple, earnest letter asking Andropov if he intended to conquer the world or prevent nuclear destruction to global surprise, her letter was published in the Soviet newspaper Pravda, and in April 1983, she received a reply from Andropov inviting her to see the Soviet Union. The Goodwill Tour of the Soviet Union in 1983, Samantha traveled to the Soviet Union with her parents for a two-week tour as an official guest of the government she began acting 1984 Disney Channel political aired a special Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84, where she interviewed presidential candidates. In 1985, she landed a co-starring role as Elizabeth Coleridge alongside Robert Wagner in the television drama series Lime Street.while returning home from filming segments for Lime Street, 13-year-old Samantha and her father, Arthur Smith, were killed in a plane crash. The commuter aircraft, Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, missed the runway in rainy weather and struck trees near Auburn, Maine.Her death brought profound Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbavich and US Ronald Reagan together.
You gotta love this kid's story. He lost his mother at age 3. When his grandmother got sick with COVID at age 12 he dropped school, sports to make money and take care of her to survive. When he was 12 he played football with 18 year olds in a football club. Even now at age 18, he runs a charity to help kids in need. He's raised $2 million in donations. That's the kind of character I want in the locker room.🤘
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Lesley 13 years old Soleiny 9 years old Tien Noriel 4 year old, and Cristin 1 year old they were part of Huioto Indigenous group. The single-engine Cessna 206 they were traveling in suffered an engine failure and nose-dived into the thick jungle canopy, killing all three adults on board, including their mother, Magdalena. They survived because they were seated in the back of the aircraft, which sustained the least amount of damage. They managed to stay alive in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth through a combination of luck and ancestral knowledge.
They salvaged a three-kilogram (six-pound) bag of farina (a coarse cassava flour) from the plane wreckage, which sustained them for the first few weeks being raised with a deep reverence for the rainforest, Lesly knew exactly which wild fruits, berries, and seeds were safe to eat and which were poisonous. They also used ties, scissors, and camping gear taken from the plane, the children built small, temporary tarps and hid inside hollow tree trunks to protect themselves from heavy rain, predators, and venomous snakes.During the search, military helicopters dropped emergency food boxes into the jungle, some of which the children successfully located and used.children down by following a trail of small clues left behind, including footprints, a discarded baby bottle, a hair tie, and partially eaten fruit. Helicopters also blasted a recorded message from the children's grandmother over loudspeakers, instructing them to stay put so searchers could find them. On June 9, 2023, army radios crackled with the code word "Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle" to announce all four children had been found alive.attention Their story has since been adapted into highly acclaimed documentaries detailing the survival.
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I always see people comment on posts saying “this is the worst thing I’ve ever read”, this is the case I always think about.
Marina had just earned her GED and was working to win back custody of her infant son. Witnesses described the driver as a heavyset man in his 40s or 50s in a silver Mercury Milan. The parking lot had no cameras, and he was never publicly named. source