Bridger Walker, 6-Year-Old Wyoming Boy,
Saved Sister From Dog Mauling

Talk about inspiring. You’ve got to read this story: Hero Boy Who Saved Sister in Dog Attack Feels Face Scar Is ‘Something to Be Proud Of,’ Says Dad

Bridger Walker, who was 6, jumped in front of a German Shepard last year to protect his younger sister from being attacked. (Photo: Robert Walker, dad)

Bridger Walker of Wyoming, who was just 6 years old at the time, jumped in front of a German Shepard in 2020 to protect his younger sister from being attacked. His act of bravery captured worldwide attention. His now famous quote from the incident: “If someone had to die, I thought it should be me.”

It left him with severe facial scars, which are being treated by New York City-based dermatologist Dr. Dhaval Bhanusali, who is providing his services free of charge. After multiple surgeries over the past year, Bridger’s face finally is getting back to normal. Read all about this brave young hero by clicking the link or photo above.

Check out Bridger’s “before” photo on Facebook: Bridger Walker, FB (just so you know, it’s a pretty gruesome injury)

Kids These Days!!!

Mattel Children's UCLA / Twitter
Mattel Children’s UCLA / Twitter

Barbara Diamond at littlethings.com wrote a story recently about a 12-year-old girl who has cancer and how UCLA’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity befriended her in an amazing way.

Lexi Brown, 12, was in a room at the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA that happened to be directly across the street from the SAE frat house. When Lexi and her mom hung a sign in the room’s window asking for pizza delivery, they could never have imagined the response they would get from the young 20-year-olds living at the fraternity.

Read the story at littlethings.com.

Live RPG Removed From Soldier

UPDATE: The original video we were linking to, illustrated above with a frame-grab from the footage, was on the Military Times multimedia video web page. It has since been pulled down, but we found it here, on YouTube. It’s a bit graphic, there’s some raw language, there is certainly some raw emotion, but it is an absolutely amazing piece of reportage that chronicled a soldier’s journey after being hit by an RPG while riding in a Humvee while on patrol in Afghanistan. It’s 6:46 minutes long, and worth watching every second: Live RPG Removed from soldier.

Army protocol dictates that Specialist Channing Moss, who as the soldier struck by the rocket-propelled grenade, be isolated in an area where he would be forced to either wait to die from his wounds, or be killed by an explosion from the RPG that had impaled him and which was still inside him. Army protocol states that Medivac choppers are never to carry anyone with a live round in him. But the flight crew flew him to the nearest aid station anyway. Army protocol states that a patient like Specialist Moss is to be put in a sandbagged area away from the surgical unit, given a shot of morphine and left to wait until others are treated. The medical team ignored the protocol.

The video includes some actual footage of the surgery where Dr. John Oh, a Korean immigrant who became a naturalized citizen and went to West Point, removed the round with the help of volunteers and a member of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal team. It’s a remarkable story about the people who got involved at great risk to their own safety and lives to help a fellow soldier: Live RPG Removed From Soldier.