{"id":38406,"date":"2013-11-13T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38406"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:51:25","slug":"brian-eckerman-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38406","title":{"rendered":"Brian Eckerman; Saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2013\/11\/12\/man-pulls-woman-from-cta-tracks-with-train-barreling-toward-them\/\">Chicago<\/a> about veteran  Army Reservist Brian Eckerman who saw a woman on the tracks of a train and a train was due to arrive soon;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brian Eckerman jumped to action when a he saw a woman he thought had fallen on the train tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that she was reaching for the third rail and not actively trying to get up,\u201d said Eckerman.<\/p>\n<p>But she didn\u2019t fall. She likely wanted to die, but not on his watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God it all worked out,\u201d said Eckerman.<\/p>\n<p>Eckerman learned electrical currents in the U.S. Army reserves, and with a ballerina\u2019s precision he danced with an unwilling partner over the first third rail. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He credits his mom, a retired CPD officer, with the instillation of compassion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI credit her with raising me right to always help somebody in need,\u201d said Eckerman. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSCHI.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=304452;hostDomain=video.chicago.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=615;playerHeight=365;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9522172;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.CHI%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/video?autoStart=true&#038;topVideoCatNo=default&#038;clipId=9522172\">Video at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll rescue you if you want us to or not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a link from Chicago about veteran Army Reservist Brian Eckerman who saw a &hellip; <a title=\"Brian Eckerman; Saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38406\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Eckerman; Saving the world one person at a time<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}