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"BEARING OTHER'S BURDENS"
There are times that we are weak in ourselves, but when put to
the test find that we are of great value to someone else in need
of a helping hand, leg, or arms.
Bob Butler lost his legs in a 1965 land mine explosion in
Vietnam. He returned home a war hero.
Twenty years later, he proved once again that heroism comes
from the heart.
Butler was working in his garage in a small town in Arizona on
a hot summer day when he heard a woman's screams coming from a
nearby house. He began rolling his wheelchair toward the house
but the dense shrubbery wouldn't allow him access to the back
door. So he got out of his chair and started to crawl through the
dirt and bushes.
I had to get there, he says. It didn't matter how much it
hurt. When Butler arrived at the pool there was a three-year-old
girl named Stephanie Hanes lying at the bottom. She had been born
without arms and had fallen in the water and couldn't swim.
Her mother stood over her baby screaming frantically. Butler
dove to the bottom of the pool and brought little Stephanie up to
the deck. Her face was blue, she had no pulse and was not
breathing. Butler immediately went to work performing CPR to
revive her while Stephanie's mother telephoned the fire
department. She was told the paramedics were already out on a
call. Helplessly, she sobbed and hugged Butler's shoulder.
As Butler continued with his CPR, he calmly reassured her.
Don't worry, he said. I was her arms to get out of the pool.
It'll be okay. I am now her lungs. Together we can make it.
Seconds later the little girl coughed, regained consciousness,
and began to cry. As they hugged and rejoiced together the mother
asked Butler how he knew it would be okay.
The truth is, I didn't know, he told her. But when my legs
were blown off in the war, I was all alone in a field. No one was
there to help except a little Vietnamese girl. As she struggled
to drag me into her village, she whispered in broken English, It
okay. You can live. I be your legs. Together we make it. Her kind
words brought hope to my soul and I wanted to do the same for
Stephanie.
There are simply those times when we cannot stand alone.
There are those times when we need someone to be our legs, our
arms, our friend.
--Bob Butler
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way of truth and love has always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers and, for a time they can seem
invincible, but in the end, they always fall.
Think of this. Always"
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