tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post365525380326457303..comments2023-08-17T03:43:20.335-07:00Comments on What's up?: We Don't Need Another Hero?Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14738462345516637421noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post-62763034378977949192010-10-31T16:28:52.877-07:002010-10-31T16:28:52.877-07:00Thanks for this post from a couple years back. I ...Thanks for this post from a couple years back. I just told this story in church today and as I researched this story, I was surprised by the MacDougall article as well. I wasn't impressed with its cynical tone and the way he almost seemed to be justifying cowardice. God bless (he probably already is blessing) Arland D. Williams, Jr.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post-80241756881570881032007-11-29T05:09:00.000-08:002007-11-29T05:09:00.000-08:00Honoring heroism:The "sixth passenger", who had su...Honoring heroism:<BR/>The "sixth passenger", who had survived the crash and had repeatedly given up the rescue lines to other survivors before drowning, was later identified as 46-year-old bank examiner Arland D. Williams Jr. The repaired span of the 14th Street Bridge complex over the Potomac River at the crash site, which had been officially named the "Rochambeau Bridge", was renamed the "Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge" in his honor. The Citadel in South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1957, has several memorials to him. In 2003, the new Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School was dedicated in his hometown of Mattoon in Coles County, Illinois.<BR/><BR/>Civilians Roger Olian and Lenny Skutnik received the United States Coast Guard's Gold Lifesaving Medal. Arland D. Williams also received the award posthumously. Skutnik was introduced to the joint session of the U.S. Congress during President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union speech later that month. President Reagan also personally contacted and privately thanked Roger Olian.<BR/><BR/>The two crewmen of the U.S. Park Police helicopter Eagle 1 were awarded the United States Coast Guard's Silver Lifesaving Medal. The U.S. Park Service is part of the United States Department of the Interior. Pilot Donald W. Usher and paramedic Melvin E. Windsor also received the Department of the Interior's Valor Award from Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt in a special ceremony soon afterward. Usher is now Superintendent of the U.S. Park Police Training Academy in Brunswick, Georgia.<BR/><BR/>Roger Olian, Lennie Skutnik, Donald Usher, and Melvin Windsor each received the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal.<BR/><BR/>Kelly Duncan, the only surviving flight attendant, was recognized in the NTSB accident report for her "unselfish act" of giving the only lifevest she could find to another passenger.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03547119885804246015noreply@blogger.com