These were spotted on TV, newspapers, magazines, or the Internet over the past week. We would just like to stop and take a moment to give a round of applause to those folks we’ve listed below for facing all that life has to hand out and managing it with grace and dignity. If She of We could she would give each of them the small box that when opened lets you hear an audience clapping.  

• A young boy hugging his neighbor because he was the first familiar face he saw after a tornado ripped through his neighborhood. 
• Re-enactors travelling across the country on The National Road in horse drawn covered wagons.
•  A family smiling around a storm shelter entrance. 
• An honor guard member handing the folded flag to a new widow. 
• A couple meeting on a street corner at the end of the work day greeting each other with a kiss. 
• A woman comforting her brother’s children while sitting in front of their burning home.
• An Air Force General pinning a Bronze Star on an airman next to his Purple Heart.
• Volunteers caring for lost pets at an emergency animal shelter in Oklahoma.

They are true public displays of affection.  We used to call it doing the right thing. Whatever you call it, we like it. And we like these who find themselves not just doing the right thing, but making everyone around them feel better than if they weren’t there, no matter if the circumstance is happy or sad.

You can add to the list.  Take a moment and look around.  If you see someone doing the right thing, clap those hands and try doing something completely unselfish for somebody.  Somebody else might be clapping for you.

Now, that’s what we think.  Really.  How ‘bout you?