Sandy Blair doesn\u2019t know how she got off the bus. What she remembers, looking back at it now almost three years later, is the chaos of the crash. Metal crumpling. Glass shattering. Flying bodies. Broken bones. People screaming. There was blood. There were flames and there was Sandy Blair, standing on a New York State thruway, watching as her fellow passengers dove out of the windows, hearing their screams while knowing that her husband, Willie, was still trapped inside, in the middle of a fiery mess.<\/p>\n
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And you know what, she never saw the man who saved him, at least not at first. She didn\u2019t see him park his pick-up truck by the side of the road. She didn\u2019t know his name. She didn\u2019t know that he was a soldier, on leave, on his way home to visit his Mom in Mountain Grove, Mo., when he happened upon the accident scene and happened into Sandy Blair\u2019s life and wound up holding it all together, keeping her family intact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat bus was a ball of black smoke and I was standing there, screaming, and screaming, and I don\u2019t know how long it was, but I lost a brother years ago and, true to God, I looked up and I said, \u2018Please, don\u2019t let it end this way.\u2019 And, sure enough, somehow, some way, Sgt. Jacob Perkins arrived on that scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know where he came from. I didn\u2019t see him show up. All I know is he got there and thought nothing of throwing his truck in park and running onto a burning bus. It was an inferno, an absolute inferno, and he got my husband out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So now SGT Perkins is a North American hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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