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Hero former Marine saves mother and baby from smoldering car wreck
Daily Mail ^ | 10/16/15 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 10/16/2015 10:04:17 AM PDT by Kartographer

A hero former Marine has helped save a mother and her baby from a smoking car wreck in New York despite having lost his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

Matias Ferreira, 26, was driving through the Queens area of New York City on Wednesday when he came across a car wreck with a mother trapped inside screaming for help.

Despite wearing prosthetic legs below both knees after stepped on a bomb in Afghanistan in 2011, Ferreira ran to help, climbing into the back seat to free her baby from its car seat.

Meanwhile, Ferreira's brother and father-in-law, who were riding with him at the time, rushed to get the mother out of the car.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: hero; marine; semperfi
Once a Marine always a Marine!
1 posted on 10/16/2015 10:04:17 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

There is no hope for America, we’re doomed. This is where Reagan came from.


2 posted on 10/16/2015 10:12:53 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Kartographer
SEMPER FI HOOO-RAH


3 posted on 10/16/2015 10:15:02 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Kartographer

Now if he just converts to Islam and brings a prototype bomb into a public school he’ll get an invite to the White House.


4 posted on 10/16/2015 10:17:24 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Kartographer

Obama hates this kind of story unless the victims are black or Muslim. Then it’s a good story.


5 posted on 10/16/2015 10:17:42 AM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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Despite wearing prosthetic legs below both knees after stepped on a bomb in Afghanistan in 2011, Ferreira ran to help, climbing into the back seat to free her baby from its car seat.

WOW! I sit in stunned amazement!

Why am I not surprised he's a Marine too? I don't want to sound irrational or anything but has any Marine ever done anything bad? Or even ever passed up an opportunity to do something good for another? I don't think I've ever read any stories where one went bad and all good stories seem at least most of the time surrounded by them. It's like they are supermen or something sheesh!

6 posted on 10/16/2015 10:24:12 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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I don't want to sound irrational or anything but has any Marine ever done anything bad?

Yes.

7 posted on 10/16/2015 10:30:03 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley; FourtySeven

But not since Oswald.


8 posted on 10/16/2015 10:31:25 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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Chris Kyle’s murderer was a Marine. We have our share of such people. It pleases me in the heart to see a shining star like the article, though.


9 posted on 10/16/2015 10:36:11 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Kartographer

Well, at least it made the news in a UK paper -


10 posted on 10/16/2015 11:11:18 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: FourtySeven

We’ve had our bad apples ( Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Joseph Whitman)


11 posted on 10/16/2015 11:23:37 AM PDT by Garvin (When it comes to my freedom, there will be no debate. There will be a fight)
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To: Kartographer

Thank you, Ferreira.


12 posted on 10/16/2015 12:59:24 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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