Captain Tom Walks 100 Laps for the NHS
From 2020 · a Good News classic
In the darkest weeks of the pandemic's first spring, Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to thank the NHS nurses who treated him, hoping to raise £1,000 by his 100th birthday. Donations crashed the site, then passed £38.9 million. He got a Spitfire flypast, a knighthood from the Queen, and a No. 1 single — and gave a locked-down country its daily dose of hope.
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