SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

Hero Marine Veteran Helps Save Mother And Baby From Smoking Car Wreck, Despite Having Lost Both Legs In Afghanistan

A hero former Marine has helped save a mother and her baby from a smoking car wreck in New York despite having lost his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

DailyMail.com reports Matias Ferreira, 26, was driving through the Queens area of New York City on Wednesday when he came across a car wreck with a mother trapped inside screaming for help.

Despite wearing prosthetic legs below both knees after he stepped on a bomb in Afghanistan in 2011, Ferreira ran to help, climbing into the back seat to free her baby from its car seat.

Meanwhile, Ferreira’s brother and father-in-law, who were riding with him at the time, rushed to get the mother out of the car.

Speaking to New York Daily News, Ferreira said: ‘With the Marines, you are taught to be prepared and act. Instinctively you just react, you don’t freeze, and thankfully we were able to make a difference.’

Ferreira had been driving along Cross Bay Boulevard, in Howard Beach, at around 8:30pm when he saw a car that had plowed into the central reservation.

The distraught mother was sitting in the driver’s seat, screaming “my baby, my baby!” while the child was strapped into a safety seat in the back.

Veteran, 75, fights off knife-wielding teenager who burst into chess class full of young children and screamed: “I’m going to kill some people”

A heroic 75-year-old Army veteran who fought off a knife-wielding teenager threatening to kill children in a library has spoken of the moment he confronted the attacker.

James Vernon was teaching 16 young children chess at Morton Public Library in Illinois when Dustin Brown, 19, burst into the room and screamed: ‘I’m going to kill some people!’

The brave former serviceman was slashed across the hand as he put himself between Brown and the terrified children, giving them time to escape.

Calling on the knife-fight training he was given in the US Army 50 years ago, Mr Vernon disarmed Brown, who according to a prosecutor’s court affidavit later said: ‘I failed my mission to kill everyone.’

Brown said he had been planning to kill people and then himself for two weeks, and burst into the library carrying two knives in a backpack on Tuesday afternoon. Vernon said he blocked Brown’s attack with his left hand, cutting two arteries and a tendon.

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