Tragedies have a way of uniting a community. Through grief, as precedence has shown us, humanity often shines: people, helping others as they heal.

When a powerful hurricane churned toward the Texas coast, Michael Kujawa had to think quickly.

Amanda Lollar's mission is to save every bat in Texas, if not the world. Yes. Bats.

Brittani Washington's fingers first tickled a keyboard long before she learned how to add and subtract.

Plymouth may get props for being home to the first Thanksgiving, but other states claim to have had similar feasts prior to the Pilgrims' harvest celebration in 1621. That includes Texas – which touts a great feast back in 1598.

Journey to the Hill Country and you'll find mile upon mile of ranches. Texas, right? But at the Freeman Ranch, in San Marcos, it's not cattle being herded. Rather, you'll find fields of donated corpses.

President George H.W. Bush quipped he wasn't gonna do it, upon reading the script written for his Oct. 22, 1994 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

One might deem it tough to see people at their worst on a daily basis, yet Houston police officer Sheldon Theragood gladly surrounds himself by those who need him most.