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,
...and the Hilton Chicago.
...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 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,
...here in a make-shift pharmacy which she and Miguel ran,
...in Florida after Hurricane Maria,
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
...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.
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Chris Sprague
5/14/2018 07:34:01 pm
Amazing woman !
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Patti
5/14/2018 07:51:51 pm
Thank you, Chris!
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