. >> rose: hodgkin's. >> joseph hodgkin's, great, great guy. >> rose: your favorite character.q+<@6cj& >> ipswich shoe maker. i'm possible to fitch, too, from connecticut. >> rose: tell me about both of them. hodgkin's first. >> hopl kins was a shoe maker with children and wife at home named sarah to whom he wrote regularly. no matter what was happening. and they're wonderful letters and he talks about marching for the glorious cause and he fights and he fights on. after the escape from brooklyn in this terribly demoralized army hodgkin's is writing to his wife and he's just received a letter that the little boy, their youngest child, has died. the little boy was sick. he's very worried about him. we forget, sometimes, these people are thinking about their families, they're thinking about their loved ones. so they've been defeated. it looks like it's over. they're exhausted, filthy dirt, they have no proper uniforms or anything. he hears that this child that he adores has died and yet he picks himself up and he goes on and he will not stop. >> rose: because they believed in their miss

. >> reporter: frank has cancer and for nearly ten years she battled reoccurring hodgkin's lymphoma.know why i had hodgkin's four times or why i beat it four times but i need to do what is in my power to make the world a happier or better place. >> reporter: diagnosed in college, the never thought she would see her 30th birthday and she committed a facebook campaign to commit 30 acts of random kindness. >> it reach ed more than i ever thought it would. >> reporter: her goal is simple, make strangers smile. it is strangers around the world who made her smile. >> over 12,000 people have been invited. almost 1,000 are accepted and doing the act. >> reporter: this is people that don't even know you that are latching on to this? >> yeah. obviously, it's overwhelming but in such a great way. just bought lunch at chick-fil-a for someone i don't know. >> you just got one. what does that one say? >> brought donuts to a friend an lls supporter at his office. >> this is every few minutes. you're getting another one here already. >> i want to do other things and move on from lauraine, cancer gir

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