Good Man Gets Some Praise

Sometimes it’s just good to read about a man with values like these.  After 18 years someone heard his story, passed it on, and he got public recognition — for pulling people, including a policeman, out of a collapsed building in the Northridge earthquake,

“I’m not a hero. My friends needed help and I helped them,” he said. “It’s not, ‘How does it feel to be a hero?’ The question is, ‘How would it have felt if I had turned my back on those people that night?’ I wouldn’t want to have to live with that.”