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Being a "hero" is something that is in you already. It is who you are inside. I have been in "life and death" situations, none of them involved a gunman, but in all lives were at stake including my own. In all cases I reacted, I did not act. There is a difference.

I did what my training in the past and what my mind and body were going to do. Most times my reaction were to get in there and eliminate the threat. A few times I backed off.

When you act on something, it is more of a conscious decission. When you react it is more subconscious. Take the fire that I was in about a year ago. Most people ran away, I ran tward it and was able to extinguish it. Little did I know there were bottles of flamable liquid in the fire. In the end, no one was hurt, little damage to the building, and blood pressures have dropped. But what I did was react, the only thought I had was find the fire and put it out.

I would not consider myself a hero, I just did what I did and would probably do it again. Now hold a gun to my face or someone else........I don't know.