" Heroic rescues can have huge and dramatic effects, but they are very difficult to replicate. The group around my mother's dining room table were non heroicres ers," she says. "There is nothing they did that couldn't be done by any like minded group of ordinary people."
Malcolm tells the story of how his parents and their friends sponsored three Vietnamese refugees, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. And wonders: do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?
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