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13-year-old hero saves his family, others
Myrtle Beach Online ^
| 09/01/2005
| Audra D.S. Burch
Posted on 09/02/2005 4:07:37 PM PDT by semaj
"I just didn't want to see my family drown," said Phillip, a seventh-grader who spent Wednesday in a shelter at the junior high school he normally attends. "I was scared if I didn't keep helping, somebody would die."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 13yearold; biloxi; hero; heroism; hurricanekatrina; katrina; noeorleas; rescue; teens
Some good news for a change.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:07:38 PM PDT
by
semaj
To: semaj; lysie; kayak; kassie; Molly Pitcher; Miss Marple
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:12:04 PM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Freedom Needs A Soldier)
To: semaj
He deserves to be called a hero.
Thanks for the post.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:15:05 PM PDT
by
verity
(Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
To: semaj
He is a Hero...I pray he does great things with his life.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:26:38 PM PDT
by
marmar
(435th CASF Germany helping bring the Wounded Warriors home........)
To: Northern Yankee
Thanks for the ping. Nice story. I bet there are many more if the MSM would just search for them.
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:46:38 PM PDT
by
lysie
To: semaj
This 7th grader was more prepared than the Governor of Louisiana. Way to go, Phillip!
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posted on
09/02/2005 4:49:58 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
To: semaj
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
To: marmar
He probably will. Any kid that motivated as a thirteen year old has a future. He sounds like the kind that comes out stronger through these kind of tirals.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:21:21 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: semaj
beautiful story of a couragous young man. God BLESS HIM......
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:25:21 PM PDT
by
pollywog
(Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
To: metmom
I pray so...........we need more Heroes in this world.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
marmar
(435th CASF Germany helping bring the Wounded Warriors home........)
To: semaj
WOW, what a story, thanks for posting.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:50:41 PM PDT
by
cyborg
("I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts..." A.Einstein)
To: semaj
I just read somewhere else about a 6 mo. old and a 4 day old baby dying from dehydration near the Superdome.
Thanks for this uplifting story. I needed it.
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:55:31 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(A person's a person no matter how small)
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