Heroes

Context: Landmine-hunting hero rat dies in Cambodia after stellar career

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Even more heroic, perhaps, for being entirely unaware of what they have done.

Bravery not being the absence of fear but the courage to act in spite of it, this is a template – if entirely unrelated – case (with video) in a dramatic rescue by the LAPD last Sunday: Pilot freed from crashed plane by Los Angeles police seconds before train ploughs into it