With all the crap going on, here's a story that made my day...

[Cheap_Trick]

LOCAL BOY WITH CANCER TURNS INTO SUPERHERO FOR A DAY.

Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spider-Man called.

Spider-Man happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he's Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.

And Spider-Man needed Erik's help.

Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.






For the rest of the story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html

It's incredible how many people were involved in making this hero's wish come true.

[pintobean]

1. Very cool

Thank you

[barbtries]

2. by the time i finished reading

tears falling down my face. people can really be good.

[Subdivisions]

6. I'm glad no one is here to see me right now. Some big man I am. Great story. n/t

[mikita]

3. sweet.... thanks. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Photo of the imperiled Spider-Man.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. This is a terrific story.

Thanks for sharing it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I LUUUVE the make a wish foundation

accidentally, mind you, we ended up working with them.

A kid wanted to be a paramedic, but for OSHA issues you could not get a 12 year old in the back of an ambulance in the US.

We did it...

Hell, I even gave that kid one of my patches.

He died three months later, but his parents were eternally grateful with us.

[ceile]

8. Terrific!

How fun it must have been!

[Soylent Brice]

9. that's so awesome.

[Old Troop]

10. This made my day so much better

people really are good.

[OneBlueSky]

11. absolutely the coolest story I've read in a long time . . .

long live Electron Boy! . . . :yourock: