The Heroes Breakfast

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The Heroes Breakfast

...Continued from yesterday:

    As the Red Cross Heroes Breakfast was on Thursday morning at the downtown Chicago Hilton at 7:30 am, we were up early and on our way to join the morning commuters. And their phones.

...on the subway.
     We detrained at the the La Salle station then walked through the city,

...to Michigan Avenue,

...and the Hilton Chicago.

...a pretty place on the inside,

​...and crowded with people there for the event.

     We found Claire and Miguel amidst the crowd, and of course I made them pose for a couple of ops.

​     (For those who don't recognize Miguel in the above pictures, the above is his new look since he shaved his beard and donated 16 inches of his gorgeous hair to Children With Hair Loss).

     We entered the dining room, now filling up with the guests, many of whom appeared to be representatives of the businesses sponsoring the event.

   We sat at a table with some of Claire's fellow nurses from Northwestern Hospital.

    Besides Claire there were a dozen other inspiring American Red Cross Heroes honored,

​...including a nine-year-old who saved her 8-month-old brother, 4-year-old sister and mother from a house fire.

     As with the other heroes, the Red Cross made and showed a video about Claire's work around the world,

...in which Claire talked about, her yearly medical mission to Haiti,

​...here in a make-shift pharmacy which she and Miguel ran,

...her work in Texas after Hurricane Harvey,

​...in Florida after Hurricane Maria,

...in Sierra Leone during the Ebola plague,

...and most recently in Bangladesh in the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox's Bazar .

    Here's the link to the Red Cross video about Claire's work: 
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZ176WDbxA

...and the link to the video of Claire's award acceptance speech:
https://www.facebook.com/mjimenez82/videos/10107473470831442/

    And here's a little clip the Chicago affiliate CBS did on Claire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi1a0T-hqUA

     After the ceremony there were a few more photo ops,

...and finally, the dilemma of what to do with the big poster of Claire, which she was allowed to keep.

​   But that was a nice dilemma.