i tried to think of something cynical to say about this but, in the end, it's just too appealing to the old hippie still lurking inside me.
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To honor the fallen: 26 acts of kindness proposed
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new movement has taken off to honor the 26 people killed at a school in Newtown, Conn.
The campaign sparked from a question NBC News correspondent Ann Curry asked herself after Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School: "What can I do?"
The answer she arrived at was performing 26 acts of kindness. On Sunday, she shared that suggestion on social media, inviting everyone to join her.
By Wednesday, the hashtag "26acts" was trending on Twitter and a "26 Acts of Kindness" Facebook page had exceeded 17,000 likes.
The social media sites describe acts of kindness directed toward members of the Newtown community, as well as to others across the nation and even globally.
Curry wrote on the NBC News website that the movement is a way to "help heal us all."
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26 acts of kindness
We found 26 families through the Catholic church that I go to in the neighborhood of my warehouse and we are setting up a full Christmas dinner for them. The local grocery store is donating all the food and my company is buying the children (I think it's 33 children) the gifts. My employees came to me about it yesterday and we went right to work on it. The women that work for me are out shopping right now. We've done this in the past on Christmas but never to this extent. I think the idea that Ann Curry put forth is desperately in need in the world today with the amount of hate that's out there in today's climate.