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What Makes a
Hero?
Dave Sanders, a computer/business
teacher and basketball and softball
coach at Columbine High School, is
responsible for saving the lives of
hundreds of high school students
when two student gunmen opened
fire outside Columbine.
Upon hearing the gun shots,
Sanders ran to the cafeteria and
evacuated over 100 students from the
building, saving all of their lives. The
cafeteria was almost completely
empty by the time the gunmen
entered.
Sanders left the cafeteria and ran
to an upstairs hallway in an effort to
lead several students to safety. He
was shot from behind and suffered
wounds to his torso, head, and neck.
He managed, however, to get himself
and his accompanying students into a
science lab where he eventually bled
to death before first responders were
able to arrive.
William David
“Dave” Sanders
Rescorla was the vice president of security at
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He worked in the
Twin Towers and regularly drilled employees on
how to safely evacuate the World Trade Center.
Pre 9-11, Rescorla was confident that the towers
were vulnerable to attack. His predictions proved
to ring true on that awful day on September 11,
2001.
After the first hijacked plane slammed into
the first tower, Rescorla did what he knew best.
He grabbed a bullhorn, defied officials’ requests
to stay in the office, and heralded company’s
employees out of the building.
Rescorla marched employees out of the
building two by two. By the time the 2nd plane
hit, he had already helped most of his company’s
employees to safety. However, he went back in
the burning building despite first responders’ dire
warnings not to re-enter.
Rescorla was last seen on the 10th floor of the
burning tower. Some say he helped thousands to
safety on that fateful day in American history.
Rick Rescorla
Trained as a police dog in Halifax, Nova
Scotia — where he worked for six years,
helping to find more than $1 million in
contraband — Trakr had retired in May 2001
before he and his trainer, Canadian police
officer James Symington, drove 15 hours to
help recovery efforts in New York City
following the Sept. 11 attacks. Trakr was
credited with locating the last survivor found
beneath the rubble. Two days after arriving
and searching for survivors the entire time,
Trakr collapsed from smoke inhalation,
exhaustion and burns and was treated for his
injuries before returning to Canada. Later in
life Trakr suffered from a degenerative
neurological disorder that experts say could
have been caused by his work at Ground
Zero. Before Trakr died in April 2009, his
DNA was entered into a cloning contest by
Symington and was later chosen for use. In
June of that year, five cloned Trakrs were
born.
Trakr
Media giant Oprah Winfrey was born in the poor rural town of
Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954. After a troubled
adolescence in a small farming community, where she was sexually
abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother,
Vernita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon, a
barber and businessman. She entered Tennessee State University in
1971 and began working in radio and television broadcasting in
Nashville.
Winfrey became a dedicated activist for children's rights; in 1994,
President Clinton signed a bill into law that Winfrey had proposed
to Congress, creating a nationwide database of convicted child
abusers. She founded the Family for Better Lives foundation and
also contributes to her alma mater, Tennessee State University. In
September, 2002, Oprah was named the first recipient of The
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Bob Hope Humanitarian
Award.
According to Forbes magazine, Oprah was the richest African
American of the 20th century and the world's only Black billionaire
for three years running. Life magazine hailed her as the most
influential woman of her generation. In 2005, Business Week
named her the greatest Black philanthropist in American history.
Oprah's Angel Network has raised more than $51,000,000 for
charitable programs, including girls' education in South Africa and
relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
By 2012, she had given away about $400 million to educational
causes including over 400 scholarships to Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Oprah
Winfrey
In Greek mythology, Odysseus was the ruler
of Ithaca. On the day of his son’s birth, Odysseus
was called to fight in the Trojan war. Despite his
reluctance in going, Odysseus served with great
bravery.
After a ten-year stalemate in the war, with
great cunning and cleverness, Odysseus devised
the idea of the Trojan horse—a tactic which
helped the Greeks to finally defeat the Trojans.
After the war, Odysseus spent 10 additional
years fighting to get home to his beloved wife
Penelope and their son Telemachus. Along the
way, he encountered angry gods, violent storms,
and many monsters. He fought them all and
weathered every storm. He watched 720 of his
men die on the journey home.
After his 20 year absence from home,
Odysseus returned to find his house in
shambles, suitors courting his wife, and his
servants being anything but kind to him. He
rights the wrongs—by killing the disloyal
servants and suitors—and is reunited with the
family for whom he literally journeyed to hell
and back .
Odysseus