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sheshe2

(83,729 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 10:48 PM May 2017

Nearly $30,000 Raised for Homeless Man Who Helped Manchester Arena Attack Victims

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“Steve was just one of hundreds of people who forgot about their own safety and rushed to the aid of others, and we were both moved by his story. Steve deserves this chance to improve his own life after his selfless and heroic acts undoubtedly improved the lives of so many others.”

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Instinct to help people

“We are human, we still have a heart, we still have that instinct to help people out that need help and that’s what we are doing. And obviously when we are seeing children like that, with blood and, pulling nails out of their arms and stuff, and there were a couple in a girl’s face,” he said.

“It was children, a lot of children with blood all over them, crying and screaming. If I didn’t help, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself for walking away and leaving kids like that.”

“We wiped blood from children’s faces. I mean, one little girl, she was covered in blood. Her mom was screaming so some guy was coming at her, took the little girl’s t-shirt off her, and it was someone else’s blood shed on her.”

Jones described how he and a friend held the legs up of a woman who was severely bleeding while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. “We thought she was just going to bleed right out.”

More: http://ktla.com/2017/05/24/nearly-30000-raised-for-homeless-man-who-helped-manchester-arena-attack-victims/

Homeless...Steve and a friend started to run after the blast, then turned back to help the wounded.

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Nearly $30,000 Raised for Homeless Man Who Helped Manchester Arena Attack Victims (Original Post) sheshe2 May 2017 OP
Great story flamingdem May 2017 #1
There are so many good people out there, flamingdem. sheshe2 May 2017 #2
While this is a good thing mythology May 2017 #3
True. sheshe2 May 2017 #4
 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
3. While this is a good thing
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:22 PM
May 2017

I find it a little disturbing to think about the sentence "If I didn't help, I wouldn't be able to live with myself for walking away and leaving kids like that."

How many walked away from him while he was homeless? How many of us do so every day from homeless people in our cities?

sheshe2

(83,729 posts)
4. True.
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:29 PM
May 2017

It shows he is the better person than the rest of us and the politicians that do nothing to help them.

From my link...yet the newly elected Mayor...

["Jones’ actions have shined a spotlight on Manchester’s growing homeless problem. The newly elected mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, has pledged to donate 15% of his salary to a homeless charity."]

There is hope.

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