The home of the brave

"Home of the brave!"  Does a headline get better than that? I don't think so. Neither does Chicago's Herald News in telling the story of a group of men who saved several teens from a car fire.
The Bradley truck driver worked late and would have usually been home before 8:45 p.m., the time that night that he pulled up to the intersection of 104th Avenue and Wilmington-Peotone Road.
"I came up and saw the flames in the field, and then I saw it was a car on fire," Kalafut said Thursday. "I dialed 911, grabbed my gloves and a fire extinguisher, and ran to help."
Kalafut and three other men rescued five teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 that had been in the now-burning vehicle. Will County Sheriff's police say the 1995 Eagle had gone past a stop sign and was broadsided by another car, sending it [...]

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