Here’s a story that ran in Saturday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer about a guy named Tom Monroe – people like this need more recognition: Army vet Tom Monroe sends books to troops because ‘It’s the right thing to do’ This guy has sent tens of thousands of books to troops overseas using his own retirement money. Just bunches of random paperbacks that he picks up from various places. He doesn’t do it for any reward or tax break or discernible self-interested reason, except that it’s a good thing to do, and because he never had anything to read when he served overseas. A lot of the time we assume that service has to be done through some sort of formal organization or program, and we forget that some of the most worthwhile projects out there are small, self-started, and...