All three of these made me tear up

Every day, Obama gets 10 letters from the average American to read. Here's a link to a few examples. There's a link to the full story there explaining how the 10 letters get picked from a pool of tens of thousands.

I also didn't realize that the one surviving Somalian pirate was sixteen years old.

Here's a slideshow of a Taliban ambush narrated by the soldiers involved.