Current Events Blog for Mrs. Countryman's AP United States History class at Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Free car for fugitive lookalike
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/us/james-tully-eric-frein-car-fundraiser/index.html?c=us&page=1
James Tully, a father of two, walks to work every day. On his walks, he's been stopped at least twenty times because he resembles the fugitive, Eric Frein. He's gotten so used to it that he started wearing his ID to work. Dawn DeBiase was touched by Tully's constant police interruptions, so she began an online fundraiser to buy him a car. In only five days, she raised over $22,000 and this weekend, she's closing the fundraiser at Tully's request. He's decided that he'll handle the rest and continue on.
This was written by Emanuella Grinberg for CNN. She is relaying a positive story of how one person reached out to another. I think this should be inspiration to a lot of people. It shows that it doesn't take much to help a person out. All Dawn did was start a fundraiser over the Internet. It's great that she stepped up to help.
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