Amputation doesn’t stop Oklahoma man’s mission as Marine

Inspiring people

Other nominees listed

→Boy Scouts who rescued people after a deadly Iowa tornado.

→Paul Newman, the late actor whose Hole in the Wall Gang Camps help ill children.

→Randy Pausch, the late Carnegie Mellon professor who inspired millions with his "Last Lecture."

→Dr. Halima Bashir, a Sudanese physician brutalized for condemning Darfur horrors.

→Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor a researcher who studied her own stroke as it happened.

→Christina Applegate, actress and breast cancer survivor.

→Dara Torres, the oldest Olympic diving medalist.

→Darin Headrick, superintendent who helped Greensburg, Kan., schools recover from a tornado.

→Steven Curtis Chapman, Christian music artist who lost his daughter.