What is the greatest act of courage you have personally witnessed?

Question

THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO HAS ANSWERED. I feel as if I was present to see something very special. Every act of courage described here seems to me to actually be an instance of overwhelming love for others.

No 'best answers', each response here is worth much more than that.

Answer 1

I personally watched my PLT leader charge across an open field of fire with small arms fire and RPK machine gun fire incoming to rescue an Iraqi boy that had been hurt. I personally scrambled up a burning Bradley to yank some one out burning my hands in the process. I have seen many cases like this. I watched Iraqi interpreters fight by our side even though if enemy forces found out who they were they would rape and murder their families. I have seen it all and I have also seen small boy with cancer in our boy scout troop here in Korea take part in activities to help others out even though he needs help himself. I live by the Army Values and especialy personal courage and self less service. I know of many stories including my grandfather at 15 lying about his age to join the marines and hitting the beaches in WWII at 16 and iwo jima on his birthday and my uncle in vietnam who earned a distinguished navy cross for staying under fire etc and rescuing his fellow buddies including throwing a steel pot helmet and a sand bag on a gernade and putting his weight on it and losing chunks of his flesh and than getting a M2 machine gun up and running again but you said what have I personal witnessed ....... Shadow Stalker



EDIT: why did someone give me a thumbs down for this :(? .... Shadow Stalker

Answer 2

Militarily: A Flight Deck crewman who rushed (unprotected) into the burning flames of a Tomcat ramp strike to rescue the Pilot who had ejected after impact and landed in the fuel.

Civilian: Myself and four other neighbors rushed into a burning apartment building (3 story) to clear out the 6 apartments. before the Fire Dept got there. There were 3 children up on the 3rd floor where the fire started.

UPDATE:
Mr. phattphatt. While I agree with you about Jesus. I do not think you are over 2000 years old. I believe the question stated "PERSONALLY WITNESSED" and call me silly ,but I dont think you were actually there.

Also I would love to know who gave Shadow Stalker a thumbs down as I would love to personally witness his/hers butt kicked.
Shadow Stalker, you got my vote
Semper Fi from this salty squid.

Answer 3

PacFleet (HS-6) Rescue Swimmer (Navy) who put 4 survivors from an EA-6B into an SH60-F... and then because there was no further room... he took a raft and WAITED in the open ocean for 2 hours until he was picked my by another helicopter.

My Brother putting his 40 ft sailboat against a 20 ft motorboat that was afire... we got the 4 family members off... and the motorboat burnt to the waterline.

The NYPD and NYFD going to the towers on 9-11..

And every shipmate who goes up on the flight deck... night and day.

Answer 4

I saw the liftoff of Apollo 11 from the press stands at John F. Canaveral (Kennedy Space Center, FL) on July 16, 1969 and that was the only time in my life I ever saw the whole world, not just the USA agree with one another.

Answer 5

a squad in my old unit was loading up in the trucks and about to head out to provide back up for fellow americans in a firefight in iraq.... my buddy Dan told his gunner Stu that he wanted to switch places (making stu the driver that day and dan the gunner) because he knew that the firefight was going to be really rough (4 IEDs had already gone off in a daisy chain and there were over 30 insurgents on the roof tops shooting off AKs and RPGs) and he wanted Stu to be able to go home in a couple months to his wife and daughter........... Less than an hour later we were told that Dan had been shot in the side and the bullet had gone straight to his heart and he had been determined dead on arrival to the combat hospital. We all still talk about him constantly... he was like a brother to everyone in the unit.

Answer 6

do you be attentive to what the source of your melancholy is? i exchange into severly depressed some years in the past by way of my dwelling difficulty. It exchange into hindering me from improving my existence-form and my unhappiness exchange into getting worse on a daily basis. i exchange into on sound asleep pills and anti-depressants, and that i exchange into additionally consuming alcohol each and every nighttime only to numb my ideas. My decision exchange into shifting out of state, looking the activity that helped to enhance my existence-form and dwelling in an surroundings I neglected so badly. on an identical time as I nonetheless am unhappy often times, now in ordinary terms because of the fact I leave out my acquaintances and kinfolk, for the main section i'm plenty happier. not greater meds and not greater alcohol. have you ever tried writing down what scares you approximately being social? have you ever regarded on line for help communities that are in a position to offer you some techniques on a thank you to paintings by it? Meds are ok for brief term, yet you may discover what makes you chuffed and try off that. For me, only shifting to Colorado close to the mountains made a great distinction!

Answer 7

i saw a man pull a dog out of the way of a car going like 40 in the neighborhood and the car clipped him leg and he only got some scratches, bruises, andno broken bones

Answer 8

I was about to die, and I deserved it, and a man that I had hardly noticed stepped up in a manner that so intimidated those who were about to murder me for my offenses against them that they took him and let me go. They horribly tortured him with beating unmercifully. They even ripped out his beard and tore off half his skin. Then they hanged him , slowly, till he died. He was the bravest man i ever knew, and the toughest. After they took him to his grave , they put guards about his grave. After 3 1/2 days he rose from the dead and ascended on high and He forever lives to make intercessions for all our sins.. He is The Lord Jesus Christ..

Answer 9

My parents were married nearly 60 years.

Answer 10

My wife given birth to our daughter.