Culture and the Heroic Code His heart sunk to his stomach as he pulled up to the horrific site. Officer Daniels was the first to arrive on the crash scene. He could hear the children's cries coming out of the mangled school bus. Daniels, without hesitation, raced into the fiery bus and started pulling out the kids in the front. As he was pulling out the children, he noticed that this was his son's bus. …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…a hero than this one. When I read about the actions of Officer Daniels, it made me stop and think about what a hero is really made of. Before hearing about this event, I had shared some of the same views of a culture that makes heroes out of undeserving people. I now see heroism in a different way. The acts of Officer Daniels has shaped and changed the culture that I call my own.