Here's a heartwarming story from Tennessee. Sorry I don't have proper
attribution but I'm sure it can be checked easy enough.

I picked it up off my fishing group -

Quote - Earlier this week we had a five page thread involving a 14
year old boy. Here's part of a news story in my local paper the same
day about a 12 year old who lives about 15 miles up the road from my
city. Here's most of the article that was in the Cookeville, TN.,
Herald-Citizen newspaper February 19, 2008..........................

"Twelve-year-old Cole Presley is being called a hero after saving his
grandfather's life on a farm between Rickman and Livingston last
Friday afternoon.

The boy's quick thinking kept an angry bull from goring Aubrey Maurice
Presley, 75, to death in a field where Presley had gone to tend to
cattle, according to Overton County Sheriff W.B. Melton.

"Mr. Presley was out there in the field when this 1,400 pound Angus
bull started butting him and knocked him down and even fell on him at
one point," said Deputy Sgt. Donathan Durham.

The boy, who was outside the pasture's fence, reacted quickly when he
saw what was happening. First he sent his younger sister, Jordan, to
the house to call their parents.

Then he jumped into his grandfather's Chevy pickup, drove it into the
pasture, and used it to bump the bull away, the deputy said. The bull
kept attacking, even butting the truck and making large dents in the
metal, he said.

"But the boy managed to get the truck between his grandfather nad the
bull and then he jumped out and got his grandfather into the truck and
drove out of there."

Once outside the fenced area, the boy called 911, and soon help was on
the way.

Deputy Sgt. Durham, along with Deputies Sean Alred and Tom Key, were
dispatched to the scene. When they arrived, paramedics from the
Overton County Ambulance Service were already there treating Presley
for his injuries, which included several broken ribs.

A helicopter ambulance was brought into the farm and took Pressley to
Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where he remained yesterday, St.
Durham said.

"He is expected to recover. He was able to talk to us at the scene
when we got there. One of his family members was asking that the bull
be shot, but Mr. Presley said no, said he would get rid of it, but he
didn't want it shot."

Sgt. Durham said Cole Presley is definitely a hero.

"If it had not been for him, his grandfather would have been killed,"
Durham said.

Cole is the son of Kevin and Stephanie Presley, and Kevin is the son
of Aubrey Maurice Presley."- end quote

JF