Children rode bicycles with signs exclaiming “Firefighters ROCK,†and dogs meandered with sandwich boards reading “Thank You,†-- all for the men and women who decided to stand as the only thing between the town’s homes and raging fires.
A tragedy was narrowly averted in France thanks to the courage of 3 American passengers and a British man who rushed straight at a heavily armed man.
At the White House Thursday, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Corporal William "Kyle" Carpenter, a retired US Marine whose courageous actions shielding a fellow soldier and beloved friend from a grenade blast in Afghanistan.
President Obama yesterday presented the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Captain William Swenson for conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty. President Obama yesterday presented the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Captain William Swenson for conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty. Will's commanding officers wrote, In seven hours of continuous fighting, Swenson braved intense enemy fire, and willfully put his life in danger against the enemy's main effort, multiple times in service of his fallen and wounded comrades… and his endangered Afghan partners.
Every now and then, during this era of heated partisanship, an event emerges that brings both sides together in the U.S. Congress. When news broke yesterday tributes began pouring in for a beloved member, Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who died yesterday at the age of 88. The most senior member of the Senate, Inouye was also a World War II hero, having receiving the Medal of Honor for bravery after losing his arm while charging machine guns atop a ridge in Italy. His heroics were the stuff of legend.
As he inched through the churning, chest-deep water, Jay Price struggled to distinguish one potential catastrophe from the next as he and his comrades from the Manasquan Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 kept pushing forward, chest deep in the rushing water, to reach another stranded person in their homes and rescue them to the safety of their M35 Army cargo truck, one by one through the chaotic night.
A VAN driver is being hailed a hero after saving the life of a motorist who had a fit while driving along a busy highway. Thanks to Tony Smith's quick thinking, the driver escaped possible death after Tony used his van to slow the car to safety.
A Los Angeles City firefighter says he owes everything to a teenage boy who jumped into action and saved his son from a fast-moving fire.
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