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Thomas Hudson, the Little Rock man who helped fire fighters rescue a woman and child from a submerged vehicle after heavy rains in Little Rock last week, issued this release.  In it, he questions the use of the term "hero" to describe him and calls on others to help out in their communities.

All this “hero” talk is exciting to me, but also troublesome. Is "heroism" something to which we all can aspire, and to which we all are called, in duty to our neighbors? Or does naming a firefighter a "hero", for instance, excuse the rest of us from the duty of dragging a stranger from a burning building?

I give myself a "C" for that night.