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Why isn’t it just: two great young men help a family. Why is it necessary to point out they are LDS?

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I have no problem in people mentioning they are LDS and I am not a Mormon. These kids are outstanding. One is an eagle scout. The Mormons are A1 in my book as they stuck their neck out for Prop 8 and got their teeth kicked in by the left.

If all of my, now former, Catholics had voted the way Mormons had - we would not have a Kenyan-born Muslim marxist running the country or offerings by the church provided to ACORN and La Raza.

Why isn’t it just: two great young men help a family. Why is it necessary to point out they are LDS?

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Here is an act of heroism by a fifteen-year-old in NM, no religion mentioned.

Heroism overlooked Young firefighter's act initially unreported

First on the scene were Prewitt volunteer Fire Chief Able Forkner and his 15-year-old son, Patrick. Forkner, who lives about a mile from the crash scene, heard his beeper page and responded immediately by driving to the crash in his personal pickup with Patrick in the passenger seat.

The scene upon arrival must have been harrowing.
While driving through a construction zone on frozen roads, the trucks had been unable to slow down. The second truck in line rear-ended the first truck with enough force to shear its hood as the motor wedged beneath the trailer in front of it. A piece of metal severed the now-smashed truck’s fuel line, which began spraying fuel against the electrical posts of its battery. The battery began to arc and the truck caught fire. Harris and his wife, Estelle Chartrand, were in the third truck, which similarly rear-ended the second truck and caught fire. Chartrand was driving.

“The tires on the truck exploded,” Harris said. “It was all smashed in the front and the cab was filling with smoke immediately ... my wife’s foot was jammed between the motor and the brake pedal.”

Harris had been resting in the sleeping quarters of the truck while his wife drove. She was pinned behind the steering wheel and the impact had broken her thumb.

“She’s not hurt terribly,” Harris said. “But we didn’t know that at the time.”

The driver-side door became lodged behind the truck’s fender and the passenger-side door was little better, Harris said.

“They got out of a white, half-ton pickup ... the young fellow is the only one we had anything to do with,” he said.

“My wife and I said he looked like he was about 18 years old ... the door would only open about 6 to 8 inches, which was enough for my wife to get out, but it wasn’t enough for me ... I was actually trying to kick the door, trying to get it enough. So this young fellow actually pulled on the door. I was very impressed. I was very impressed with what he did.”

Chief Forkner said when he and Patrick arrived on the scene, the occupants of the second truck were already getting out by themselves, which sent them rushing to check the other passengers. Harris described watching Able and Patrick Forkner running up and down the long line of crushed and burning metal once he and his wife were safely away from the truck.

“We’d like to thank those two fellows for stopping,” Harris said. “Those two firemen were the first two there. And it was considerable time before any state trooper got there.”