How Bob Denver Became a Real-Life Hero With a Simple Act of Kindness

It is funny where you find some of the best, most heartwarming true stories. Sometimes they’re not in history books but tucked away in small places like the comment section of a YouTube video. That’s where Brian Bommarito shared a simple, wonderful memory with me about his father and a TV star that we all know.

In his YouTube comment, Brian said that in the late ’60s, his dad and a group of Vietnam vets, all of them amputees, were given a special tour of CBS TV studios. Way back then, this was like visiting the center of the universe. This was where the magic came from, beamed right into our living rooms.