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Sam Freundlich, 88, showed his tattoo from the concentration camp he was in during the Holocaust to the volunteers that were working to make his Danbury home more livable on Friday. I was moved by his sincere gratitude for the repairs Home Depot and HomeFront were doing.
Last week the same folks put a fence around a blind woman’s house. Her guide dog had been hit by a passing car.
Sometimes the stories we cover enrich our view of human nature. This is one.

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This little fella was perched right outside the newspaper. I happened to notice him as I was walking to the front door. This praying mantis reminded me of the Little League World Series that I covered a few weeks earlier. There was a praying mantis that the ESPN camera operator filmed and it kept hanging around and became the game’s unofficial mascott. They named him Mickey Mantis!

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Born two weeks after the 9/11 tragedy and named for his uncle who perished in the attacks, Bradley Vadas, 11 of Newtown, leaps among the rocks at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport following the annual memorial service on Monday.

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Every September 11th, Gloria Lockwood Evans dresses in red white and blue and goes out to fly her flag motif kite.

“I love this country and feel so bad that people would hate us so much and do something so dastardly to hurt us.”

On September 11, 2012, Lockwood Evans flew her kite at Sasco Beach in Fairfield, Conn. to honor the firefighters and families of 9/11.

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You see cars tow other cars, of course – boats tow boats.  But this is my first time seeing a bike tow another bike.

When the chain on Renata Navarro’s bicycle broke on an afternoon ride,  her quick-thinking companion,  Anna Hebert helped her get home. It’s good to have friends.

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Today I had the pleasure of photographing my all time favorite basketball player, former New York Knick John Starks. As a player, Starks had what fans love. John played with heart. As a player, John went toe to toe with the great Michael Jordan, probably the greatest of all time. Starks wasn’t intimidated, even though Jordan trash talked him, and John Starks didn’t back down. Instead he dunked the ball in Jordan’s face. We fans remember that.

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Stormtrooper Walter Vongher, of North Branford, enters the Trumbull Marriott Saturday morning to attend ComiCONN, the comic book and sci-fi themed collectibles show.