Anonymous Hero (via CNN’s “Boston Marathon bombing heroes: Running to help“)

“A Northeastern University student seriously wounded by shrapnel from the first blast is searching for her personal hero, a man she knows only as Tyler. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is helping the woman, whom he met at Tufts Medical Center, to find Tyler.

Victoria — he didn’t give her last name — was scared and, “as she described it, hysterical” when a firefighter carried her to the medical tent near the finish line, Patrick said at a news conference Tuesday.

“There was a person who helped calm her down, who described himself as an Army sergeant, an Afghanistan vet,” Patrick said. “I don’t know whether he was assigned to medical tent or, like so many people there and elsewhere in the commonwealth, just jumped in to help.”

Tyler helped Victoria in a way few people could.

“One of things he said to her to calm her down was to show her his own shrapnel wound or scar from … when he was in Afghanistan,” he said.

An ambulance took Victoria to Tufts Medical Center, but her memory of Tyler followed.

“Victoria very, very much wants to thank Tyler personally,” Patrick said. “So, if Tyler is out there and listening or reading your reports, we would love to hear from Tyler so that we can connect him to Victoria.”

Call the governor’s office, Tyler. The number is 617-725-4000.”

 

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