Naples, Fla. (Sports Up Today) — Remembering the words spoken by then-five year-old Valeria Tkacik still gives her mother, Anne, goose bumps.
"I turned around to look at her, and she was looking at me and smiling, and I'll never forget that day. She said, 'Mommy, I was born to make people happy.' I said to her, 'I know you will.' I truly believe she was getting a message from the angels right then. And from all her achievements, I know this to be true."
Will Recant pulls both heartstrings and purse strings for a living.
As the head of the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, a consortium of 49 national Jewish organizations, he has been at the center of the American Jewish reaction to 20 global crises in the last 20 years. Of late, his focus has been on Syria.
