Courage sustains a hate crime survivor(Was 5 when Shot in 1999)

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One bullet hit Ben Kadish in the hip and tore through his abdomen. Another crushed his thigh bone. He tried to crawl to a multipurpose room for cover, but his body wouldn't get him there.

He still didn't know he'd been shot.

How could a boy of 5 conceive of a world in which a stranger, filled with hate, would walk calmly into a community center filled with children and fire 70 rounds from a semiautomatic rifle, on a mission to kill Jews?

Kadish figured the loud noise and the commotion were part of a fire drill at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, but nothing seemed to make sense. He remembers lying on his back, gazing up and fading out.

Paramedic Todd Carb and his partner, Danny Jordan, plowed out of Fire Station 87 in Northridge with only sketchy information about a shooting. When they arrived at the community center and realized children were inside, they charged into the building before getting police clearance.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez26-2009jul26,0,809339.column


Ben Kadish visits with firefighter and paramedic Todd Carb at Fire Station 87 in Granada Hills.

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1. What a moving story

Thanks for posting. We need to hear more about folks like Todd Carb.