The Navy has honored those brave and cool-headed sailors of the USS. San Francisco whose actions saved lives and helped save the submarine in what was a hideous situation. All honor to them.
More locally, the Broward Sheriff's Office has honored the deputy who came across a church bus full of kids sunk in a canal one night along the Florida Turnpike. He kept swimming through the emergency exit on the roof of the bus and was able to save 23 of them. He organized the people who stopped to help, performed CPR, and did all that was humanly possible to save those children that night in the pitch-black water.
Lucky for all of us that guys like Deputy Tony Monforte and the honored crew of the San Francisco are out there, as the rest of us are going to run around like chickens with our heads cut off. At least, I would.
(Thanks to Gmac for news of the San Francisco.)
Posted by floridacracker at March 27, 2005 12:44 PM