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- Hey sir, you need, you need any help?

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And when he turned
around and looked at me,

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the look he gave me

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was pure terror.

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He said, "My son's in
the backseat of the car,

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call 911."

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(soft music playing)

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(traffic sounds)

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It was a Monday morning.

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A normal Monday morning.

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I was headed,

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I was headed out to another office,

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there was a little bit of traffic,

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I figured that it was
a car, a car had died.

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When I pulled up,

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a car was bent in half.

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There was a gentleman outside

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the passenger rear of the vehicle.

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He looked all right,
so my first assumption

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was he was fine.

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Something inside of me told me

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to ask him if he was all right.

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So I rolled down the window

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and you know, asked him,

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was like, "Hey man, you all right?"

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The time I appeared
between him and the car,

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and that's when I saw a car seat.

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So, I pulled up right in front,

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grabbed my first aid kit

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and ran to the back of the vehicle.

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Tried to help.

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It was a dream, that's what it felt like.

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Once I started getting on scene,

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started applying the first aid,

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it started kicking in,

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and then my first thought was

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my son, 'cause I have a two-year-old boy.

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I kinda got a little
bit emotional about it,

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'cause I was like, this could be my son.

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I'll credit the Marine Corps

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and the training that I've received.

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I think if I was just some
average Joe on the street

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I probably would have kept driving by

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like a lot of people did that day.

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I feel like every Marine
would have stopped,

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'cause inherently, that's our nature,

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that's how we're trained.

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You know, the classic cliche,
recruiting commercial,

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when chaos happens
everybody's running away,

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Marines typically run towards it

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to figure out what's going on.

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So the boy's gonna make a full recovery

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with no long-term issues.

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I wish him the best and the
safest recovery possible,

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the quickest recovery.

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He's gonna grow up with no real issues,

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but some slight scarring.

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He's gonna be just fine.