In 1949, I just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking (搭便车) home to their families, as was the ___at that time in America.

___, the excitement of this reunion with my family soon disappeared. My mother became very ill and had to be in hospital. The doctors told me she ___a blood transfusion (输血)   ___or she wouldn’t live through the night. The problem was that Mother’s blood type was AB-, a very ___type even today, but even harder to get then because there were no blood ___ or air flights to ship blood. All the family members had their ___tested, but none was a   ___. So the doctors gave the family no hope. My mother was ___.

I left the hospital ___to gather up all the family members, ___everyone would get a chance to tell Mother good-bye. ___down the highway, I passed a soldier in uniform hitch-hiking home to his family. Deep in sadness, I had no willingness at that moment to do a good deed. Yet it was almost as if something outside myself pulled me to a ___, and I waited as the stranger climbed into the car.

I was too upset to ___ask the soldier his name, but he noticed my tears right away and asked why. I told this total stranger ___.

It got very ___in the car. Then this soldier reached his hand out to me, in which rested the dog tags (身份识别证) from around his neck. The blood type on the tags was AB-. The soldier   ___me to turn the car ___and get him to the hospital.

My mother ___until 1996, and to this day no one in our family knows the soldier’s name. But I have often wondered, was he a soldier or a(n) ___in uniform?

On the night of April 18, Sue together with her three children, who are 2,3, and 8 years old, went to a packed restaurant in their hometown. It can be_____________to families with small children.   But to Sue, her children were acting_____________while enjoying dinner.

_____________, the restaurant staff were very_____________with her children's table manners. Even the 2- year-old on a high chair seemed to be having so_____________a time. They_____________her kids and gave the family of four a bowl of ice-cream.   It wasn't until Sue got home that she noticed a $ 10 “___________kids” discount on her receipt to cover the_____________.

This wasn't the first time well-behaved kids have been_____________in the restaurant.   What was different this time was that one staff member wrote it out in the____________. Rob, the owner, said a family with young children has a rough ride to the______________.

Children will get out of the chair or stand on chairs or get loud, which______________other people, and they have to pay babysitters to look after____________ children.

Sue posted the receipt on a social media and the story______________.   She said it's been entertaining to see all the______________her story has got.   And she______________to dine there again soon.

Sue said her kids merely______________the table manners used at home. “Everybody in my generation was raised to______________in restaurants.   But that parenting skills have been ____________in some cases at present.   I just______________that parents should teach their kids' some proper table etiquette (礼节). ” She added.

It is every kid’s worst nightmare and six-year-old Jaden Hayes has lived it _________. First he lost his dad when he was four and then last month his mom _________ unexpectedly in her sleep.

“I tried and I tried and I tried to get her _________—I couldn’t,” said Jaden.

Jaden is _________ heartbroken.

But there’s another side to his _________. A side he first made public a few weeks ago when he told his aunt, and now guardian, Barbara DiCola, that he was sick and tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. And he had a plan to _________ it. “And that was the beginning of it, “said Barbara.” That’s where the _________ began. “Jaden asked his aunt Barbara to buy a bunch of little _________ and bring him to downtown Savannah, Georgia near where he lives, so he could _________.

“I’m trying to make people __________,” said Jaden.

Jaden __________ people who aren’t already smiling and then turns their day around. He’s gone out on four different occasions now and he is always __________. Even if sometimes he doesn’t get exactly the __________ he was hoping for.

It is just so overwhelming to some people that a six-year-old orphan would give away a toy—expecting nothing __________—except a smile.

“I’m counting on it to be 33,000,” said Jaden. When asked if he thinks he can make that __________, he answered: “I think I can.”