Heroes.

[islandman]

I saw on imgur that he's getting married - people found his and his fiancée's registry and bought all or almost everything on the list.

Brave guy.

Nice.

 

[albertaboy]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...vice-lost/article19043197/#dashboard/follows/

This one hits pretty close to home for us, like about 10 blocks.

 

[islandman]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...teen-in-friendly-against-spurs-194454317.html

The Seattle Sounders.

 

[islandman]

And then there are those who are heroes every day: https://screen.yahoo.com/inspiration/loving-fathers-inspiring-dance-special-164948057.html?vp=1

 

[yossi]

This is Noah who's 8. He carried his disabled 6 year old brother through a triathlon.

http://imgur.com/myINSUc.jpg

http://imgur.com/nBCca5U.jpg

http://imgur.com/5cmPsOO.jpg

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[islandman]

Over the course of her career, Mimo captured memorable moments on the streets in many countries, but was particularly moved by an interaction with a young Syrian girl living in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Mimo photographed the green-eyed girl after noticing the word “love” written out on her hand in English and Arabic.

“When I asked further about the girl, I found out she had lost both of her parents, and actually her whole family only a few days ago,” Mimo explains. “So it struck me how she could stand there, her eyes shining, and think of love.”


https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3712/9380488316_6b5edc0e1e_b.jpg


Full page here: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/05/moments-of-emotion-from-around-the-globe/

 

[Laurel]

Great thread.

Kinda topical:
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hero-brains/

 

[islandman]

Raiders player donates game check to 4-year-old heart patient

You know, there are people involved in the NFL who use their vast powers and resources for good. Here's one of those stories. Fox Sports' Jay Glazer connected the Oakland Raiders with the family of 4-year-old Ava Urerra of Las Vegas. Ava has a heart condition that Glazer says is like having "half a heart." The result was magnificent.

The Raiders offered young Ava, who has undergone 14 different procedures on her heart, the opportunity to "captain" the team, and gave her signed gear and toys throughout a visit with the team. Offensive lineman Menelik Watson, so touched by Ava's condition, donated his entire game check, $18,000, to help with the expenses of Ava's family.

 

[Kitty]

You made me do the ugly cry.

You could never do a thing ugly.

 

[Kitty]

Over the course of her career, Mimo captured memorable moments on the streets in many countries, but was particularly moved by an interaction with a young Syrian girl living in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Mimo photographed the green-eyed girl after noticing the word “love” written out on her hand in English and Arabic.

“When I asked further about the girl, I found out she had lost both of her parents, and actually her whole family only a few days ago,” Mimo explains. “So it struck me how she could stand there, her eyes shining, and think of love.”


https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3712/9380488316_6b5edc0e1e_b.jpg


Full page here: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/05/moments-of-emotion-from-around-the-globe/

What a strangely beautiful girl.

 

[lemonbread]

Save the cheerleader.
Save the world.

My thoughts exactly when I saw this thread.

But these heroes are good too.

 

[neci]

scribbles

 

[yossi]

http://imgur.com/ZgB67t3.jpg

Michigan Troopers Charge Into Fire To Save Unconscious Baby:
Before firefighters could arrive, two state troopers charged into a raging house fire to save an unconscious 2-year-old boy in Gaylord, Michigan.

Police said troopers Jim Leonard and Rick Carlson “held their breath and closed their eyes” after spying, from a window, a crib in the corner of the room. They dragged it out of a patio door they had broken into and started CPR on the boy who had no pulse. A babysitter and the boy’s seven-year-old sister had escaped to call emergency services after they awoke to find the living room in flames. “This is why we put the uniform on every day,” State Police Sgt. Jeff Gorno told WFMY News-2.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/michigan-troopers-charge-fire-save-unconscious-baby/

 

[islandman]

Dad Refuses to Give Up Newborn Son With Down Syndrome

https://gma.yahoo.com/dad-refuses-newborn-son-down-syndrome-221817795--abc-news-parenting.html

When Samuel Forrest of Armenia heard a baby crying from outside his wife's hospital room, he knew his life would change forever.

Not only had he become a father, but he would soon receive some unexpected news about his newborn son.

"This pediatrician walks out of the room with a little bundle -- that was Leo," Forrest said. "She had his face covered up and hospital authorities wouldn't let me see him or my wife. When the doctor came out, he said 'there’s a real problem with your son.'

Forrest followed doctors and nurses into a room where he'd finally get to meet his baby.
"When I walked into the room they all turned to me and said 'Leo has Down syndrome," he told ABC News. "I had a few moments of shock."

After the news had sunk in, Forrest held Leo for the very first time.

"They took me in see him and I looked at this guy and I said, he's beautiful -- he's perfect and I'm absolutely keeping him."

Soon Forrest walked into his wife's hospital room with Leo in his arms.

Her reaction was unlike one he ever expected.

"I got the ultimatum right then," he said. "She told me if I kept him then we would get a divorce."

Attempts to reach the hospital for comment weren't immediately successful. The baby's mother, Ruzan Badalyan, told ABC News that she did have a child with Down syndrome and she has left her husband, who has the child, but she declined to elaborate.

 

[Jake0126]

As a person that rides on that big red truck and wears that heavy turn out gear every work day i can honestly say..

These are true heroes.


Thanks for the thread!!!

 

[yossi]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b2_1422062015

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[yossi]

http://i.imgur.com/Qj28rOk.jpg

A police officer who went to a video game store to buy a present for his son ended up in a fierce gunbattle with two would-be robbers, fighting to the end of his life to protect patrons and employees, a police captain said Friday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/philadelphia-police-mourn-officer-killed-robbery-29431529

 

[jeninifer]

Stop making me feel!

For the record, I feel compelled to say that people whose job it is to run towards the gunfire or into the burning building ARE heroes.

We shouldn't forget them.

I put up a 9-ft red white & blue christmas tree that pays tribute to these heroes - our soldiers, police officers, firefighters and other emergency personnel.

... but it is a special person who isn't trained to react a certain way, yet they do and they risk or give their lives to save others.

 

[Killswitch]

Everyone who had a Bloody Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday and Saturday before Bloody Sunday and everyone who sat down in the front of the bus before Rosa Parks got credit for it.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...ter-from-convicted-sex-offender-31045133.html

 

[Sean]

http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/David-Nott.jpg

This is David Nott. He's a doctor. Every summer, he takes his vacation time and goes off to hellholes like Syria to perform surgery in almost impossible conditions. And teach the locals how to do it too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...or-treating-child-bomb-victims-ceasefire.html

 

[yossi]

Indian student drags drunk attacker to police by his hair

An Indian student has been hailed as a heroine for standing up to a man molesting her at a train station in the middle of the day, and dragging him by the hair to the police – while dozens of people did nothing to help.

Pradnya Mandhare, 20, was travelling home after a day of classes at Sathaye College, in the Mumbai suburb of Vile Parle, when she was approached by an obviously drunken man...

 

[islandman]

North Carolina Church Receives Heartwarming Note With 18-Cent Donation

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2rFdh2uf__1Dc1Rj2wn_Ug--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTU0MDtpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/gma/us.abcnews.gma.com/ht_note_lb_150430_16x9_992.jpg