You're Never Too Old to Be a Hero

I find it amusing that when you tell people you work in senior housing, you often get comments about how "quiet" it must be, and you hear a lot of stereotypes about senior citizens. 

You don't often hear people talk about 72-year-olds jumping in to save the day:

Inspired by a recent video of tourists rescuing 30 plus beached dolphins in Brazil, 72-year-old George Heheman put the techniques he saw in that video into action when he came upon a stranded dolphin himself.


According to Good Morning America, Heheman was taking a leisurely boat ride in Jacksonville, Fla., over the weekend with his wife and daughter, Kerry Ware, when they saw a dolphin stuck on a sandbar. Remembering in the Brazil rescue mission the beachgoers pulled the dolphins back to sea by their tails, Heheman began to do the same.

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