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Meet the dog who learned to walk like a human after he was badly injured
Dexter the dog used a wheelchair to get around after he was hit by a car — until he started walking on two feet.
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Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent since 1996. Hartman shares moving stories about the extraordinary people he meets in his weekly feature segment "On the Road," which airs Fridays on the "CBS Evening News" and repeats on "CBS News Sunday Morning." "On the Road" is modeled after the long-running series of the same name originally reported by America's greatest TV storyteller, the late Charles Kuralt.
Hartman's stories are also used in thousands of classrooms around the world to teach kindness and character. In addition, with the help of his own children, Meryl and Emmett, Hartman and family host "Kindness 101." These segments air on "CBS Mornings."
In 2020, Hartman cofounded "Taps Across America" - which has become a Memorial Day tradition. Every year at 3 p. m., thousands of buglers and trumpet players stand on their porches and patios to play taps in commemoration of the holiday. Hartman was inspired by a story he did in 2013 on a man who played taps every night on his balcony.
Hartman has won dozens of prestigious broadcast journalism awards for his work. He has received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, four national Emmy awards and 14 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow awards, including a record 12 citations for best writing.
Previously Hartman was a columnist for "60 Minutes Wednesday" and correspondent for two primetime CBS News magazines, "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel" (1997-98) and "Coast to Coast" (1996-97). Before that he was a feature reporter at KCBS-TV, the CBS owned station in Los Angeles (1994-98), WABC-TV in New York (1991-94) and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis (1987-91). He began his career in broadcast journalism at WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio as a news intern and general assignment reporter (1984-87).
Hartman was graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He is married with three children and lives in Catskill, New York.
Dexter the dog used a wheelchair to get around after he was hit by a car — until he started walking on two feet.
Abraham and his brother had never celebrated their birthdays before being adopted and moving to the U.S.
"If I set [my mind to do] something, I'm going to do what it takes to get to it," Jake Thibeault said.
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Baset Azizi fled Afghanistan as a young trumpet player as hard-liners sought to ban Western music and punish players.
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Bud McQuade planted the flowers for his wife, who loved them. After she died, he kept planting.
"In a sport that winning is everything, Zippy taught us that losing is a normal thing," said one of the horse's fans.
The trips in and out of the freezer took their toll on the snowman who was sent from Kentucky to snow-deprived children in Florida.
Chloe Grimes gifted her favorite player a bracelet and he's been wearing it for good luck ever since.
Vaughn Smith is fluent in or can carry on a conversation in 24 languages, though he estimates he's learned more than 40 different languages.
Steve Hartman's blind nephew was inspired by a blind drag racer. A pilot then helped him achieve his dream of flying a plane.
For years, the sheet music sat in a drawer until their grandson found it.
"I'm thankful everyday that she made that decision," the son, who is now 16, said of his late mother.