These 4-year-old twins released balloons with letters to Santa. A stranger 650 miles away found them and brought them their gifts.
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After a tough 2020, a mom in Liberal, Kansas wanted to give her children a special moment to close out the year. Leticia Gonzalez had her 4-year-old twins, Luna and Gianella, write letters to Santa and attached them to balloons, sending them off into the sky.
About a month later, a grandfather living more than 650 miles away found a red balloon tangled in a downed tree. "I dreamed all my life of finding a balloon with just a name and number and calling and saying, 'I found your balloon,'" Alvin Bamburg of Shreveport, Louisiana told CBS News. In late December, Bamburg was walking near his home when that dream came true.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.