Author name: Jenny Ng

I am always fascinated by the tattoo culture and the stories behind each individual's ink. As I get older, I begin to appreciate the artistry and skill that goes into creating a tattoo, and I eventually decided to create this blog to talk about every thing tattoo!

Theme Park Shuts Out Fallen Heroes’ Kids — Until One Veteran Makes a 90-Second Call

Part 1 – The Day the Gate Closed The day a family theme park closed its gates on 150 children whose parents died in uniform, a scarred veteran on a bad knee made a ninety-second phone call that turned a private heartbreak into something the whole country would have to look at. None of us […]

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The Veterans Who Formed a Human Wall Around My Autistic Son on the Highway

Part 1 – The Day the Highway Turned into a Battlefield Twelve veterans formed a human wall around my screaming autistic son in the middle of an American highway while dozens of strangers held their phones higher, ready to watch him break instead of helping. In that instant I was certain I was about to

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Veterans Who Wouldn’t Walk Away: How One Girl Turned a Courthouse into a Battlefield

Part 1 – The Girl on the Courthouse Steps The morning I went to court to pay a fifty-dollar parking ticket, I ended up watching a fifteen-year-old girl beg an empty sidewalk to save her from a man the whole town called a hero. I wasn’t there to save anybody.My name is Jack Rivera, former

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Little Boy Walks Into a Veterans Bar and Asks ‘Scary Soldiers’ for Help

Part 1 – The Crumpled Flyer at Liberty Hall The night a six-year-old boy pushed open the door of our broken-down veterans’ bar, slapped a crumpled flyer on our table, and asked a room full of “dangerous soldiers” to guard his daddy’s coffin, every ghost we’d tried to drink away sat up and listened. By

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Silent for 3 Years, He Saluted in a Parking Lot and Said ‘That’s My Dad’s Song

Part 1: The Bugle in the Parking Lot The kid who hadn’t spoken in three years snapped to attention in the middle of a crowded parking lot, saluted like a soldier. Then he whispered that he’d finally found the men his father had promised would come. I was parked at the far edge of the

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Friday at 3:17 – The Veteran Who Drove Six Hours for One Hour of Hope

Part 1 – Friday at 3:17 PM Every Friday at exactly 3:17 PM, a limping veteran in a faded field jacket walks into our pediatric cancer ward, and my dying eight-year-old patient forces his failing body to sit up straight and salute him. What nobody understands—not the staff, not his mother, not even me after

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