MY grandma — we called her Mamaw — loved her country. Born in eastern Kentucky coal country at the beginning of the Great Depression, she credited so much of the good in her life to America’s bounty.
The ALS Association received $8.6 million in donations Tuesday as proceeds from the ice bucket challenge continued to pour in at record rates. The association has begun posting daily tallies from the fundraiser on its website, stating on Wednesday that since July 29 it had raised $31.5 million.
In the past couple of weeks, you likely saw plenty of this on the Internet. Celebrities all over the world have been taking the so-called "Ice Bucket Challenge" to raise awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating illness.