Jack Phillips, a 25-year-old senior wireless operator, also proved to be one of the many heroes during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. On the evening of April 14, 1912, Phillips was working through a backlog of personal messages from the passengers and crew. However, he and Harold Bride, a junior wireless officer, did pass on several messages about iceberg warnings to Captain Edward Smith.

As the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg , Phillips continued to work in the wireless room. When Bride came to take over from Phillips, Captain Smith entered and ordered Phillips to send out a distress signal, calling for assistance from nearby ships and providing the liner’s estimated position.

Both wireless officers worked tirelessly until 2:00 AM sending distress signals. Then Captain Smith informed them that they had done their duty and ordered them to abandon ship. While Bride took the opportunity to throw flotation devices into the water to help others, Phillips remained at his post in the wireless room sending distress signals until the final minute of the liner’s sinking.

Although Phillips managed to climb onto the upturned Lifeboat B, he sadly passed away and slipped into the water. Thankfully, Harold Bride survived the event. He died in 1956.

    Andriana Ioannidou,  Panagiotis Bilis,  Aggeliki Mastoridou

                Casey Jones

  Casey Jones was a railroad engineer known for his speed who died in 1900, when he collided with another train. He was immortalized as an American folk hero.

  On April 30, 1900,  Casey Jones volunteered to work a double shift to cover for a fellow engineer who was ill. He had just completed a run from Canton, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, and was now faced with the task of returning on board Engine No. 1 headed southbound. Sam Webb, a fireman for Illinois Central, accompanied Jones on the journey. The train was originally running more than an hour and a half behind, and Jones, determined to arrive as scheduled, ran the steam locomotive at speeds nearing 100 miles per hour in an effort to make up the time.

   As Jones took a turn into Vaughan, Mississippi, Webb warned him that there was another train parked on the tracks ahead of them. As quickly as he could, Jones grabbed the brake with one hand and pulled the whistle with the other in an attempt to warn those around the train. Jones then turned to Webb and told him to jump to safety, all the while still trying to slow the train. The collision was brutal. All passengers on the train survived, with the exception of Casey Jones, who was struck in the throat while still holding one hand on the break and one hand on the whistle. 

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Italian priest Don Giuseppe Berardelli, who had been infected with COVID-19, chose to put others lives before his own by selflessly giving up his own ventilator to save the life 

of a younger person.

The 72-year-old, who made that ultimate sacrifice on March 15 2020, succumbed just several days later, died from the infection.

Giuseppe Berardelli, who had been a priest for 47 years, was serving as the Archpriest of Casnigo in the Diocese of Bergamo in northern Italy, one of the areas hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Berardelli had been suffering from a respiratory condition for some time, so his parish had previously purchased the breathing apparatus to help him cope with it.

News of his sacrifice has now gone viral on social media.

                                       Pazolidou Dora, A3

Benjamin Keefe Clark didn’t serve as a police officer or firefighter on September 11, 2001. He was working as a chef, prepping meals for those at the Fiduciary Trust Company on the 96th floor offices in the South Tower. When the plane hit the building, he didn’t try to escape the disaster himself. Instead, he took the steps to guide others to safety.

Reportedly, the former Marine ensured that everyone in his department as well as in all the 96th floor offices evacuated the building immediately. Following the tragic event, a Fiduciary official credited Benjamin with saving hundreds of lives. 

For example, once they reached the 78th floor, he reportedly assisted a woman in a wheelchair. Despite his undeniable heroism, he didn’t survive the tragic event.

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On July 9th, Bridger Walker, a six year old child, saved his little sister's life by standing between her and a charging dog. The dog latched on to his cheek and he yelled at his sister to run away. When the dog realeased, he ran to his sibling so as to keep her sefe. Then, he was taken immediately to hospital. When his father asked him why he stepped in front of the dog he answered that if someone had to die, he thought that it had to be himself. This action was absolutely heroic. 

                          Bridger Walker

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Heroes without capes

Many people were killed on September 11th on 2001, when terrorists on board of 4 aircrafts commited murder-suicide in the USA. While buildings were collapsing, people were trying to save themselves and help each other. This attack though, turned many people into heroes. Two of them were the flight attendants ,who were on flight 11 the morning  this tragic event took place and called the american airlines grand manager in order to inform him about the plane being hijacked.

(Betty Ongs phone call : https://youtu.be/icfkIH3j-nk )

 The flight attendants, whose names were Amy Sweeney and Betty Ong , staying very calm, gave to the FBI important details about the terrorists appearances, seat numbers and names. This information later led to the identification of the hijackers. With much  bravery they kept calmness in the plane and helped whoever was injured. They stayed on their calls until nearly the moment their plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center, where they lost their lives while on duty.                            

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                      Victoria Soto

Victoria Soto,27, was a teacher, who worked at Sandy Hook elementary school for five years. She died in a very young age while trying to save her students.

In December 15, 2012  a man holding a gun went into the school and started shooting. Victoria hid the kids in the closet. When the shooter walked into the class he asked her where the student were she lied to him and told him that they were at the gym. Unfortunately the kids were terrified and jumped out of the closet. 

Then the young teacher went quickly in front of the man, like a shield for the children and sacrificed herself.

A memorial service was held on December 15, and funeral services took place on December 19 at the Lordship Community Church.

                          Maro gkigki

Chesley Burnett (born January 23, 1951) is an American retired Air Force fighter pilot and airline captain. He is best known for his role as pilot in command in the 2009 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan after both engines were disabled by a bird strike; all 155 people aboard survived. He served as the co-chairman, along with first officer Jeffrey Skiles (his co-pilot during Flight 1549), of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)'s Young Eagles youth introduction-to-aviation program from 2009 to 2013.

Sullenberger retired from US Airways after 30 years as a commercial pilot on March 3, 2010. In May of the following year, he was hired by CBS News as an aviation and safety expert.

Sullenberger is the co-author, with Jeffrey Zaslow, of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, a memoir of his life and of the events surrounding Flight 1549, published in 2009 by HarperCollins. His second book, Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders, was published in May 2012. He was ranked second in Time's Top 100 Most Influential Heroes and Icons of 2009, after Michelle Obama.

The chernobyl disaster caused an innumerable amount of deaths and damage which could have been even bigger if it weren't for those three selfless men, Alexei ananenko, valeri Bezpalov and Boris Boranov.A huge piece of radioactive carbon was about to melt in a big tank of water.This would have caused a really strong eruption which could fire an explosion of tons of radioactive material in the air which would have made the disaster 10 times worse.

              The heroes of chernobyl

someone had to empty this tank to save thousands of people's lives,  three men we mentioned before offered to do this enen though they knew how dangerous this was and the possibilities were they would die.after a while, they died due to the amount of radioactivity  they received but we owe them gratitude and respect.because despite the fact that they knew what would have happened, they sacrificed their lives and indirectly saved millions of european civillians 

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PC Keith Palmer was killed after stopping a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack.

He died from wounds he received in the attack and was posthumously awarded the George Medal - the second highest award for gallantry "not in the face of the enemy".

The 48-year-old had worked for the Metropolitan Police for 16 years.

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The Greek air force pilot, Nikos Parousis, finding a fault in the Mirage 2000E, in which he was flying over Oropos, at the last moment and without abandoning it, prevented it from falling to school by flying it away, where it crashed with him.

On November 4, 1998, the fatal Mirage, took off at 11.20 in the morning from Tanagra Airport in the direction of the Aegean for an interception exercise. During the flight, Nikos found a defect in the control system.

The pilot Parousis, realizing that the situation was out of control and seeing a school in front of him, according to eyewitnesses, made desperate efforts and prevented him from falling into the school.

However, he preferred to sacrifice himself for the sake of the salvation of many and, obeying the oath he gave, he piloted the fatal aircraft out of the residential area and crashed with it…

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<< A train Brakeman saved an entire town!>>

Lets travel back to 1907, to the Pilares cooper mine outside Nacozari , Mexico. To burrow deep into the mines , people needed a whole lot of explosive force and this came in the form of dynamite and blasting powder which was delivered by train . One such train was chugging its way to the mines on schedule, on November 7,with the only problem being that the roof had somehow caught fire.

The train should have had some measures in plase to preventthat from happening and definately should have had the means for putting out fires once they start but the engineer on this day just had one instruction for the crew : " Jump for your lives " . Everyone obeyed except for the brakeman who realized that letting the train roll into a population center and explode wasn't the ideal sollution to this particular trolley problem .So the brakeman stayed abroad .

He threw open the throttle to get  the locomotire  moving as fast and as far as possible. When the fire reached  the powder and the train blew up ,he wasn't totally out in the wildness and the ensuing destruction of some barracks did kill a dozen or so laborers. But the explosion, which was big enough to shatter every window in town, was far enough away that he had saved  hundreds of lives . Then again ,of cource this man was ready to lay his life down to save others.His name was Jesus Gracia . 

                   -Anna Maria Katsiou A'1  

When Nigerian-born Godwin Ajala first arrived in the United States, he was forced to endure various poorly paid jobs until he secured a permanent position as an access control officer at the World Trade Center. His role required him to walk various floors and ride the elevators at the two towers to secure the building and provide assistance for small emergencies.

When he wasn’t working at the towers, he was preparing to take the New York State bar exam.

Godwin Ajala

When the planes hit the World Trade Center, 33-year-old Ajala selflessly helped thousands of people to evacuate the towers. He reportedly held the door open for people as they fled the building, and he guided others out of the towers to safety. Sadly, he later succumbed to exhaustion and fell into a coma, passing away the following Sunday.

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                                   PATRICK GALLAHAN

A Boston firefighter saved a mother and a child in a dramatic rescue from a burning house in Roxbury.

Α desperate mother is seen lowering her child from a  window to firefighter Patrick Callahan on a ladder below. The firefighter saved the child first and after the mother. The distraught mother later on the ground among the fire engines, run to find her child. Ηer child is held safe in fire brigade arms.

“Just getting the baby down, that was my priority. Let’s get the baby down, let’s get mom down and the rest of it will just fall into place.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

 Up to 10 people were left homeless by the fire.

      Christos Karakolis

Travis Atkins was a solder in the United States Army.

he born on December 9 1975 and grew up in Bozeman, Montana. Atkins rejoined the Army in December 2005 as part of the 10th Mountain Division.

On June 1, 2007, Atkins’ unit was doing route clearance in the town of Abu Samak, southwest of Baghdad, when they noticed two suspicious men trying to cross the road they were securing. Having heard reports that there were insurgents nearby, Atkins and the soldiers in his Humvee yelled at the pair, who started acting erratically.

Atkins had his Humvee pull over. The staff sergeant tried to search one of the men, but he resisted, so the two started fighting. That’s when Atkins realized the man had a suicide vest under his clothes. A short while later, the insurgent found the trigger.

Atkins had his Humvee pull over. The staff sergeant tried to search one of the men, but he resisted, so the two started fighting. That’s when Atkins realized the man had a suicide vest under his clothes. A short while later, the insurgent found the trigger.

Without pausing, Atkins bear-hugged the man from behind, threw him to the ground and pinned him there, shielding his fellow soldiers who were only a few feet away.Atkins died from the blast, but his quick thinking and selflessness saved the lives of three other soldiers, one of whom shot and killed the second insurgent before he could detonate another explosive vest.

He awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 27, 2019.