European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Lot very Borly j i involved by John Harbour Assoc lated press Rhey stepped out of the shadows at Ordinary life into the Glare of and they carry the scan they earned for being Good it changed their t not one of them regrets it Jooi Dorothy Kochs in her nor Alex Patio i on his artificial nor Don Hemphill with his poled hands and tissue paper nor Chrystal Lynn to Laught himself to walk Hemphill says it Best he dash eco after a gasoline Kkt that was being dragged by a through a Tea of he tried unsuccessfully to pry the Driver from find the steering wheel before it tie explosion no he says 23 years Many of on years 1 had to do it id try a Little i Jabeen a Little maybe id have done 1 had a Setber driving alms at the of that had been my filler in id want somebody to do of cant understand anybody who can just stand by and i didst know the Man driving the but i a and Likely he had a and if it had nine in that Likely Edh ave done like Don Hemphill have always been the but in recent years the reluctance of to step Forward risking danger or merely involved has been a subject of mock while there Are no statistics to prove there indications that the fide of indifference Mora often new York police arriving us of a crime find the culprit inthe Handset by stand v in police Iff More Tor bystanders to Tail armed robbers until the find a to thwart a pickpocket on a to a fitere Are a new York official that Haslid that More people answer w do Ordinary step Forward to each has his h who delivers mail and fawns in to shares the produce of his farm i Lahb i was brought up i had a Good and and the bib tells you to Lova your who now lives quietly to a Smalt of Howe outside of three 1m be German grabbed the Arm of a gunman deflect his saving the lives of two t was tar Alviad from one Wate Down by police a feet Patitsas rhymes with says Small i lives in a tiny Hime in a working class neighbourhood be Iuta a seve Iwar train to Qew body Block on a Man in the trains he saved a but he lost his legs the Man he saved never came to Punk re Grets Only that be cant go Back to Christi Lynn of answered the acre Aros of an la Carold found himself facing a Danli cram Man with a took Shotgun blast sat dose Range in his left his right his right still staggered Forward pleading with we then he Lay there for 414 hours bleeding and dissuade in the gun wielding drunk until regrets no 1 do not the things that bothered me most when i came to was the expression on that Childs and the look on my wife face when die came to the emergency All Hes Good Samaritans Are winners of Carnegie Hera fund awards that were established in 19m by we live in an heroic not Seldom Are we thrilled by deeds of heroism where men or women Are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or Rescue heir Fellows j such the heroes of the Carnegie commission investigates hundreds of heroic acts each gleaning the most last year it made 57 11 of them Dorothy Kobs is h her hair is Gray and nut her smile ii Bright and new recall prettier she was a night club dancer in a Tough and Independent girl who grew of la the Depre Uloa id from time to time she ponders that awful moment of decision in 1959 when threw her shoots Frame and the Mure of her baby daughter into a wrestling match a menacing knowing that this terrible thing is going to happen and trying to pre vent it irom and Many ridiculous things come into your x lot of ideas that dont make moment by Ftp i made Berea Tolop that in going to die came and that when t dear god almost like and Jody forgive because a sudden emotion went through me what a Rotten Deal in giving this 1 divorced her an she has and i1 m taking me Pat Litsai ii h be its founder in an alb Leuc Man who liked to fish and sos incl to name rubber tags As a Nautee Lii ugh school he petted Kuusela Onati Speed Hia Job Railroad switchman empty Eod Dola cars rolling free Are called silent death by railroaders they sound like a screaming he already had seen a Fetkiw worker Cut into memes by a rolling train he neither saw nor he had Are Monlon that night that some Liing Tod Wai going to i certainty have done in not the hero i just i was always the Type of person who looked out for the underdog but would i do it again i dont ii it meant saving somebody just cant answer the even psychiatrists wonder about what makes a person Rush into mortal danger on the behalf of Douglas Lentoski of Cas Western Reserve University concedes that psychiatrists dont know much about such people because they Are not the kind who come for rate know least about healthy he he people Wuh High altruistic they do these things because its right to do a of the Carnegie award winners came out 61 their ordeals even More fiercely Independent than they bad been Koczta taught herself to con Irtz her bodily functions and never used the support equipment the Hospital gave Matusas taught himself to walk Inhta artificial they shunned if i let someone do Little things for it took away my mental Security Patitsas tried to Heij other esp Dally those who came out Othle War in once he walked up to a group in a Chicago area and one of the Young men rashly of you go ahead and talk All you youve got your whereupon a you could have heard a Feather he says and t told youre not youre just As alive As you Ever were you can a 95 percent of the things you used other per cent is the hardest and that is to believe in when Kochs wanted to Plant Garden outside her Frame the walked outside on her had her grandchildren bring her a chair and a rfcs and a sitting she would dig into Ibe Earth around then have the children move the chair Back and dig some More until her Garden was i turned out to be the Bast Garden we Ever the Only trouble is 1 cant go out and keep it weeded like i j did i do it i dont it was just a to be honest with if id known i was going to be ii Lipil a tit ii a flu a Ellie Canelle list b9w but then Bariy Bui to Naun of Aase Usk bravery is Macb mystery now wit Ever Dorothy Kochs remembers trying to fend for making dinner in her Little id Mcben shortly a Flertie and a grease fire started on the her Lille Daugh Ter saw and in Spile of the flames she ran to her Kochs in bothered the Ere with but she re Melba niger daughters i she says Rule children Are ecu i think they lose their courage from watching 1 i the stars and stripes Page 15
