From Facebook Post
The man in the cowboy hat in this photo's name is Carlos
Arredondo. Carlos was at the Boston Marathon with his wife handing out American
flags to runners. He lost a son to a sniper bullet in Iraq in 2004 and a second
son to suicide a few years later - a depression triggered by the death of his
brother. Carlos now spends a significant amount of his time on peace activism
and working with vets coming home from war and was at the Marathon to hand out
flags and inspire people.
Carlos does not having any medical training but when the
blast went off, he ran towards the danger, jumped two fences and found the
now-famous man in the wheelchair on the ground, both his legs blown off, and
suffering from severe shock and critical wounds. He got him into a wheelchair and
pinched the man's artery closed with two of his fingers (you can see him doing
so in the photo). Because of Carlos, this man is alive today, having had
surgery earlier today to remove both of his legs.
This man is a hero and deserves recognition. This man who
lost so much still threw himself into the frenzy of panic and saved another
guy's life.
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