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6-Year-Old Saves 5-Year-Old Friend From Drowning - News Story - WSB Atlanta

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. -- Adults didn't see a drowning 5-year-old, but his 6-year-old friend did.

Haden Stusak, 6, of Fayetteville is being called a hero after he dived into a pool to investigate a shadow on the bottom that turned out to be his friend.

Josiah Buddah, 5, and Haden are buddies. Haden is a good swimmer, but Josiah can't swim without his water wings.

On Sunday, Josiah took off his water wings and sank to the bottom of the deep end.

"I was scared, I was scared," said Josiah.

An adult spotted a shadow in the pool, but couldn't get to it. No one knew the shadow was Josiah. But Haden got curious and dove down to investigate. He had been practicing diving to the bottom. When he discovered Josiah, he grabbed him and pulled him to the surface.

And in true hero fashion, Haden says what he did was no big deal.

"We're friends. That's what friends do," said Haden.

What!!! The Army and Bush administration (and the msm media) lied about something! Jessica Lynch wasn't a female rambo?
Jessica Lynch Sets the Record Straight - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
How can this be? I'm sure President Bush or anyone that works for him would not lie to us. This has to be another case of the liberal media trying to tear down our dear leader! How much more of this can we take! We have to take a stand against this liberal crap. Someone call the NRA and tell them to start handing out AK-47s. It's time we stood up to these liberals! I just hope Fox news gets the real story out soon.

God bless President Bush for proctecting us from evil.

Disclaimer- yes that was sarcasim, in case you rightwing conservitive nutjobs don't recongize it.

The artical is interesting though, it's good that girl is coming forward and telling what really happend. After so much crap was built up about her it takes a lot of guts to come forward. She could have just rode the hero BS out, but she came out to help Pat Tillman’s family get the real truth about his death. For those that haven't been keeping score, he is the NFL player that turned down the contract to join the army after 9/11. He was shot by friendly fire and the msm/Bushies tried to make it out he was killed by the enemy. I don't know why they think we need the propiganda and lies. Obiviously friendly fire isn't good, but it happens (it shouldn't but it does). He's still died serving his country with honor.

Here is a great comment that was left, the media loves to show pictures of the crazy gunman, but they hardly mention the heroes.

Anonymous said...
Consider all the airtime and column space given to the villain of the Virginia tragedy, to his 23-page statements and his 43 sickening photographs. Now compare it with the references one needs to search for two heroes who gave their own lives to save others'.

Do NBC and others find no significance and educational value to highlight the sacrifice made by these two gentlemen?

I hope that media will suspend repeatedly playing the killer's tapes and videos and dedicate some space to honor examples of bravery like Liviu Librescu, the 76-year-old maths professor who held shut the door of his classroom while his pupils scrambled to safety, and was then shot dead .

Another fallen hero is Virginia Tech student Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, who was hit by three bullets, including one in the head, in an attempt to save a fellow student.

Shaalan, 32, had been at Virginia Tech since August studying for a Ph.D. in civil engineering. He was ambitious, saying he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1999, said his father, Mohammed Shaalan, 65.

The day before Monday's massacre, Shaalan called home and said he intended to visit Egypt next month and then return to Virginia with his wife and 15-month-old son who had been living in Egypt, his parents said Thursday. The family got another call two days later. The Egyptian Embassy in Washington told them Shaalan had been one of the 32 victims.


See his 2004 wedding photo at
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/24hour/world/story/3603061p-12883822c.html