When others drove past a sinking school bus, Tank Morrison stopped. At 68, with a body battered by age, he jumped into the rushing waters without hesitation. Inside were children screaming for their lives.
He saved seven kids one by one, pulling them from the submerged bus. But 14-year-old Emma was swept downstream. Tank found her and for three hours, with a broken arm and bleeding side, he held her above water, whispering words of courage to keep her calm.
When rescue teams finally reached them, Emma survived—but Tank slipped beneath the waves, his strength finally gone. His sacrifice etched his name in the truest definition of heroism: giving everything so another could live.