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Scouts get heroism award: Oregon shooting
Michael Derleth (michael_derleth@ELI.NET)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:13:45 -0700
Some good news for all of us today:
Teen who tackled gunman in school shooting to get Scouts' highest award
8/6/98 3:18 AM By WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writer
When shots rang out in his Springfield, Ore., high school this year,
17-year-old
Jake Ryker overcame a bullet to the chest to tackle the gunman. His
brother
and three others quickly piled on to end the rampage.
All five boys have one thing in common: they are Boy Scouts.
Monday, Jake Ryker will be presented with the Boy Scouts of America's
highest award for heroism, the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms.
Fourteen-year-old Josh Ryker and the three others each will receive
scouting's
second-highest heroism award, the Honor Medal.
It will mark the first time in the 88-year history of the Boy Scouts
that five
heroism medals have been awarded at one time. . . .
Full story available at:
http://hotnews.oregonlive.com/cgi-free/getstory.cgi?o0309_PM_OR--SchoolShooting-He&OR&news&ornews
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Michael Derleth MDerleth@ELI.NET
ASM T14 Vancouver, WA
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