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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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Maria Ruiz "Several times a week, Maria Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, crosses the border into Juarez, Mexico, bringing food, clothing and toys for hundreds of impoverished children and their families." David Puckett "Started PIPO Missions to bring ongoing prosthetic and orthotic care to those in need.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

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We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. Not knowing what we’d find over the horizon. We were interrogated by soldiers with automatic weapons. Another full day of being cut-off and numb.

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