UNSELFISH GENEROSITY.

What an amazing outpouring of love by this Florida community.

It took just a week of fund raising for the Gilchrist County Historical Society to find a way to get the sisters of a wounded soldier to Texas to see her being awarded the Purple Heart.

Pfc. Candice May, a 2001 Bell High graduate, was wounded while on a patrol in Baghdad in early June. Although May's Kevlar vest saved her life, she remains at Fort Bliss in Texas trying to regain use of her injured left hand.

She will be the first Gilchrist County resident to be awarded a Purple Heart since the turn of the century.

May's parents, step-parents and siblings were unable to afford to travel to Fort Bliss for the Wednesday award ceremony, so the historical society opened up a fund at the Tri-County Bank in Trenton.

On Monday morning, the fund had nearly reached $1,900, enough for May's father, John W. May Jr. to rent a car and pay for motels, meals and gas to get his two youngest daughters, Jennifer, 16, and Katie, 10, to Texas and back.

Read the whole story here.