Boston bombings victim Jeff Bauman the guy who helped police and the FBI identify one of the Boston Marathon bombers is seen here giving his 18 year birthday present to him to another victim — the teen who was standing next to him.
YES there ARE heroes in this world, but they’re not all athletes, self-absorbed rock singers, or people in public life.
The heroes walk quietly among us.
And when “it” happens, they manifest who they are.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.