U.S. Marine Carrying an 11-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Across a Triathlon Finish Line
WOW!!..... a Marine Carrying an 11-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Across a Triathlon Finish Line After His Prosthetic Leg Broke
Posted by Michael CHILDS, Admin II on October 12, 2012 at 6:27pm in Patriot Action Alerts
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Kim Baltz, didn’t see her 11-year-old son at the finish line of a children’s triathlon in Florida last weekend and was wondering what happened.
The Blaze,
“It was only a mile, I knew he was tired, I was like, ‘Where is he, where is he, where is he,’” Baltz told CNN. “All of a sudden the announcer just said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to turn around and look at what’s happening on the course.’” Ben Baltz, a bone cancer survivor, was seen by group of spectators in the middle of a several Marines that had picked him up after his prosthetic leg broke during the Sea Turtle Tri in Pensacola, Fla.
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“Everybody was crying,” she said. “It was just very touching that the Marines were there. They picked him up and everybody was cheering and just giving them support and Ben support.”
This story brought a big grin to my face and a tear to my eye. What great people!!
No matter how hard and cruel life can be, there is always someone willing to sacrifice and help carry the load.
Ben told ABC News how it happened: “The screws came loose and it fell off and the Marine picked me up and he ran the rest of the way.”
He added, “It was pretty nice.”
The Marine who carried Ben was Pfc. Matt Morgan, part of a group of Marines volunteering at the triathlon.
“I’d seen him many times in the race. He was doing very well,” Morgan told ABC. “It came to the final leg of the race…as he approached the halfway point, his prosthetic failed and he fell.”
He said a group ran to see if Ben was all right, but he’d already jumped up by the time they reached him and was trying to fix his leg. Morgan asked whether Ben needed help.
“He said no, he’d finish by himself and he continued to try and fix his prosthetic,” he said. “But after a couple seconds, he knew there was something wrong with it and he to need a hand.” True American Gentlemen. God Bless. the USMC.
Your witnessing some of America’s very best right there! This is what makes America and our military the best in the world.
It’s great that they happened to be Marines, but this is really emblematic of the truly good people we have here in the US. Too often we see the ‘dregs’ get attention, but here you have a story of Americans at their best. The kindness shown to this young man will live forever in his heart.
This is the stuff we’re really made of!
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem".
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
Great song and video in memory of these HEROES !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=lJXb0LLkx1Y
WOW!!.....a Marine Carrying an 11-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Across a Triathlon Finish Line After His Prosthetic Leg Broke - Patriot Action Network
