Eight years ago, my 13-year-old son, Dustin, became very ill with a heart enlarged. For several months, he lived on life support as we were forced to stand by and watch him wither away. ks5u

While his friends were out playing baseball, and sleeping in their own beds, my son was in a hospital bed, attached to a machine that kept his heart beating. As a mother, my first reaction after crying was anger, and then I played the bargaining game: "Take my life for his, Lord. I've lived my life but he still has so much to do." People all around me were praying for a heart to become available, but it made me so angry and confused because I knew for that to happen, someone else's child would have to die. How could anyone pray for that?

I still remember so clearly the morning we got the call that there was a heart. As we stood in Dustin's hospital room watching them prepare him for surgery, we experienced the true definition of bittersweet. His dad and I realized that at the precise moment we were standing there with so much hope and so much love, another family somewhere was saying goodbye. We knelt down together and cried, and we prayed for them and we thanked them for giving such a selfless gift. To our amazement, just 10 days later, Dustin got to come home for the first time in many months. He had received a second chance at life. Over the next two years, he got to go to high school, learn to drive and put his brand new heart to good use volunteering at the homeless shelter and helping the elderly.

Dustin's new heart failed him when he was 16. A tragedy, yes, but we have to see it as the miracle it was. We received two precious years with him that we would never have had without organ donation. We have more pictures, more memories and a great satisfaction in knowing that he was able to experience some of the most exciting times and milestones in a teenager's life. When he died, difficult as it was for us, we knew that it would be Dustin's wish to give back. His eyes went to someone who wanted to see. Someone who, perhaps, had never seen the faces of the family he loved so dearly. I believe that one day I will look into the face of someone else's son or daughter, and I will see those sky blue eyes looking back at me -- the evidence of selfless giving. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who was on life support?
2. how old is Dustin?
3. who was forced?
4. forced to do what?
5. what was brand new?
6. who would have to die?
7. who was praying?
8. praying for what?
9. did a heart become available?
10. for who was the heart available to?
11. when did he get the heart?
12. did Dustin have heart surgery?
13. Was the surgery a success?
14. how did the surgery succeed?
15. when did Dustin come home?
16. what occurred 10 days later?
17. what did he do when he came home?
18. did he do anything else?
19. what else did he do?
Answer: 1. Dustin
2. 13 years old
3. Dustin's family
4. stand by and watch him wither away
5. his heart
6. someone else's child
7. People all around
8. for a heart to become available
9. yes
10. Dustin
11. in the morning
12. yes
13. yes
14. by allowing Dustin to come home
15. 10 days later
16. Dustin got to come home
17. he went to high school
18. yes
19. he learned to drive

Charlton Heston was born in 1923 in Evanston, Illinois. Charlton Heston discovered his interest in acting while performing in plays at his high school. He later spent two years studying theater at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. But he left college to join the Army Air Forces during World War Two.

After the war, he found small roles in the theater as well as in television shows. His performance in a television version of the book Jane Eyre caught the attention of the Hollywood producer Cecil B. DeMille who later asked Heston to play the role of Moses in his movie The Ten Commandments which came out in 1956. This role made Heston famous and defined his career as a hero and leader. His face and body represented strength and heroism in many different roles. He played cowboys, soldiers and athletes.

The 1959 movie Ben Hur made Charlton Heston an even bigger star. Ben Hur won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Charlton Heston. Heston starred in many adventure movies during the 1960s. In the 1970s, Heston appeared in popular disaster movies like Earthquake,. Skyjacked and Airport 1975.

Charlton Heston was also very active in the movie industry. He worked to help set up the American Film Institute. In 1977 he was honored for his service in the industry. He received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor. And, in 2003, President Bush gave Charlton Heston a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

In 2000, Charlton Heston issued a statement announcing that he had an Alzheimer's disease. He died in 2008 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When was Ben Hur released?
2. Who stared in it?
3. When was he born?
4. Where was be born?
5. Did he win anything in the 50's?
6. For what film?
7. How many awards did it win?
8. Was this his last film?
9. What is another film he was in?
10. What is anotheron?
11. What is a film of his from the 70's?
12. Did he receive any awards in the 70's?
13. What did he receive?
14. What year did he get that?
15. Were there others?
16. In what year?
17. Where there any others?
18. What otheres?
19. In what year?
20. IS he still alive?
Answer:
1. 1959
2. charlton heston
3. 923
4. Evanston, Illinois.
5. yes
6. Ben Hur
7. 11 Academy Awards
8. unknown
9. The Ten Commandmentsts
10. Earthquake
11. Skyjacked
12. yes
13. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
14. 1977
15. a Kennedy Center Honor
16. 1997
17. yes
18. a Presidential Medal of Freedom
19. 2003
20. no