Maybe we really can do better

How refreshing. Journalism that is moving and big-hearted, rather than petty and small-minded.

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model

Be a downright shame, wouldn't it, if everyone aspired to be bigger, like this? World just be a damned mess of violence and mean-spiritedness, pettiness, and narrow-mindedness, and general hard-heartedness if everyone was this soft and compassionate. This decent.

It's a good thing that this generation has finally transcended humanity's long history of indecency and inhumanity. And finally put the compassionate amongst us in their place.

Because the last thing we need is more kids like Chris Henry, and everyone else, for that matter, when we're honest, turning things around. No matter what the cynics, including ourselves, when that's the case, have to say on the matter.