Bruce Springsteen Saved a School's Music Program — The Student Who Asked Is Now a Teacher

In March 1995, a 12-year-old girl named Nora wrote letters to 31 famous musicians. She told them her school's music program was being cut. She told them what it meant to her. She asked for help. Thirty didn't write back. One showed up. Bruce Springsteen drove to Freehold, New Jersey — the town where he grew up — parked two blocks from the school, and walked in alone. When he found the girl who had written to him, the first thing she asked was: "Did it work?" Today, Nora teaches music in the same band room where she raised her hand.