Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Hidden Heroes


Hero or fate? I like to think that everyone is a hero
in some way, if by fate or not.
-LEAH-

"ALBANY, N.Y. — When a baby fell from a second-story window Monday, Lisa Harrell should not have been there to catch her. Normally, the longtime letter carrier doesn't get to 306 Second St. until about 2 p.m. But on Monday, Harrell had a package to be delivered to the address before noon.
So at 11 a.m., Harrell walked to the home's door and saw a 1-year-old girl in the second-story window above her head. She rang the doorbells to both the upstairs and downstairs apartments, not knowing which tenant the package was for.
A moment later, the 42-year-old said, she felt something strike her shoulder and instinctively put out her arms.
"I noticed the upstairs window open halfway," she said. "The baby fell right into my arms. Everything happened so quick."
The baby was screaming as she fell, Harrell said, and afterward. But paramedics from the Albany Fire Department examined her and found no visible injuries."

Fate? If this story is true, I can't help but wonder why things like this don't happen every day. "Impossible things are happening every day" according to CINDERELLA. With millions; BILLIONS, of people in this world, there must be more "undercover heroes" than we hear of.
Fame is not everything. Look at your own life, I'm sure that in some way you have too "saved" someones life.

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