Lucky Decision - Found Little lost gir.

Fishing at dusk at the dam. Hear a little girl yelling in the woods on the other side of the lake for mommy mommy. Keep wondering what is going on. There are no camps over there, no roads, no access....? Is this just a kid that fell down or child abuse going on or what? I keep listening and fishing. And stop fishing and listen. Cannot make out the reason for the wailings. Stops for a bit and starts in again. Finally decided to stop fishing and hike over there and check it out. Could be a bunch of men or who knows what. This lake is said to not be safe after dark as the dopies go there. Anyway I walk softly and quietly so I can hear. Keep going. I find a little 2-3 year old girl down among the rocks where there used to be water. She was actually wailing because she was lost, exhausted, and not on good old tierra firma but falling around in the big rocks where water used to be. She was down and silent. I spotted her pink shirt. Went and fetched her, cleaned all the snot and tears and stuff off her face. A little Indian girl. Ask her questions and she cannot answer. You could hear this yelling all over the lake but No ONE seems to be looking for a little girl!

Sorry, didn't mean to make it this long a msg....Carried her back around the lake and boy did I get wet on. (it wasn't lake water) I tried to assure her I would find her mommy. Got to boat ramp at dark and still no one is looking for this little girl! Called 911. They came, an uncle came, said parents were in town and HE was an uncle and didn't know the little girl was there..nor her brother. Anyway....let cops handle it. At cops direction I handed her over to her Uncle's wife. I went away. I purely think this is an extreme case of child neglect. The uncle said the kids were not in HIS camp, and the parents had gone to town!

Well, anyway I got lucky cause I decided to go find out what was going on. Poor little thing. Can just imagine how she felt bruised, lost, dark, no one looking for her. WOW!

Ended ok though.

that is horrible, but sounds like you definitely did the right thing. if nobody else appreciates it I'm sure the little girl does.

You did good Gemrod. Thank the good Lord you were there to help that little girl. I had a similar experience about ten years ago. I was fishing a river about 25 miles from home and heard a girl screaming and crying. I was on a trail above the river and ran down the hill to help out. I found a young girl of about 9 years old who had fell on the rocks and twisted her leg really bad. I helped her the best I could and went looking for help. I found her parents camped about 1/2 mile away and they had no idea that the girl had walked away from camp.

Rocky

Gemrod, I offer a tip o' my hat to you.

Wow Jim. Thank God you were there and followed your instincts. That could have turned out way different if not for you. Jim

Gemrod,

Thanks for being a hero!

Gemrod,

That is certainly one of the strangest situations I have every heard of. Please keep us informed if you hear anything else about why the little girl was in the middle of the woods. You did a very good thing, my friend! 8T :)

Gemrod,
Great job!
Coughlin

Gemrod,
Good job.

Thank you for showing compassion on another human. Job well done. Now on her parents... No it's just not worth the keystrokes, but you dun gud! :cool:

Nope. No hero. I didn't fight of ten thousand men. I just found a little girl and helped her out. Amazing though that after dark NOBODY was searching with flashlights, or yelling out for her. No one was looking for her! I hope her parents get charged with child neglect. No one is even looking for her? What about her, exhausted, no longer crying out, down in the rocks on the wrong side of the lake? What would have happened if I hadn't spotted her little pink shirt....or gone over there to investigate. Would she have ever been found?
Not a good thing to think about.

Sorry guys. Still affecting me. So I typed some more. There's some weird people in this world.

I know God sent me there to find her. I had never fished there before!

Things happen for a reason.

I'll shut up about it now.

Good job, Gemrod. Gives me more faith in humanity when I hear stories like yours (offset, unfortunately, by the other people's lack of humanity).

Heroes are people who do what needs to be done, not for the recognition, but only because it needs to happen.

Gem,
I've had the pleasure to know 3 men who are decorated "war" hero's (silver star, bronze star, NAM with valor). All of them did things that are above comprehension for the rest of us.

But there are things all three men have in common. None of them consider themselves hero's. In fact every one of them says they did nothing special. It's not a false sense of humility or one of those "oh gosh" things. Hey honestly believe they did nothing special.

Like your story, what they in fact did was something nobody else did or thought of doing. They are all very ordinary men who did something extraordinary.

One young man in Iraq had his team pinned down by sniper fire. After a few minutes, everything blew up around them. They called for close air support but due to their location, air support could not be delivered. They were receiving heavy small arms fire and RPGs. They had suffered some minor injuries and it was a matter of time before they were out of ammo and defenseless. My friend's son did the only thing he knew and ran out to a Humvee about 100 yards across an open street. His action drew fire away from the men toward himself. He mounted the .50 and took out some bad guys and kept them down for a while until some malfunction. Even he does not remember all of what happened next but he somehow got ahold of a SAW, charged the lot where the fire was originating and took out some more bad guys. The rest of them ran away. I suppose some screaming crazy American with a machine gun running at them was enough.

The other guys did equally impressive things.

The reason I brought this up is that each of these men did outstanding things. None of them think they did anything special. They each think all they did was "the right thing" nothing more or nothing less.

Gem, no, you didn't win a medal of honor. You didn't save your platoon from getting wiped out by a bunch of terrorists, you didn't cross enemy fire to bring a wounded man back. What you did was put yourself in harms way to save the life of another human being. That, my friend, is the definition of hero.

What you did was something nobody else was willing to do. You did the right thing. You went into a situation that for all you knew was very dangerous. Your actions resulted in saving a little girl. Your actions may have in fact saved her life.

Given what my friends say they did to "earn" their military decorations what you did rises to their definition of heroic.

I would be wiling to bet I know a silver star, a bronze star and a valor holder who would say what you did was more heroic than what they did.

Jeff

Jim,
Ya Done Did GOOD!

Gemrod,
Thanks for making the human race look good. There are enough people out there that make us look not so good. If there were such a thing as a civilian Silver Star, I'd give you one. Thanks.
Oh, and you're right. God did have a hand in what you did.

I give your actions our FAOL top stars rating however you deserve many more..

Very very well done , Thank You!


You are indeed a Gem..


Steve

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Originally Posted by Gemrod

Nope. No hero. I didn't fight of ten thousand men. I just found a little girl and helped her out. Amazing though that after dark NOBODY was searching with flashlights, or yelling out for her. No one was looking for her! I hope her parents get charged with child neglect. No one is even looking for her? What about her, exhausted, no longer crying out, down in the rocks on the wrong side of the lake? What would have happened if I hadn't spotted her little pink shirt....or gone over there to investigate. Would she have ever been found?
Not a good thing to think about.

Sorry guys. Still affecting me. So I typed some more. There's some weird people in this world.

I know God sent me there to find her. I had never fished there before!

Things happen for a reason.

I'll shut up about it now.

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You are modest like most heroes. Some people would have been too scared or couldn't have been bothered to investigate. You however stopped what you were doing went to the other side of the lake to investigate what was going on. Therefore you are a hero and you deserve a medal. No doubt in my mind that you saved the little girls life. May there be more people like you in this world and less like the girls parents.

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Originally Posted by Gemrod

Nope. No hero. I didn't fight of ten thousand men. I just found a little girl and helped her out.

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Yeah, you are! Bravo! With the attitude of the world, it seems, "don't get involved", there are some that still do!
Nice goin'! I applaud you!

Jim, You had an opportunity to do good and you did it. Bad things happen when good people do nothing. You may have well saved the little girls life, the Good Lord added a star in your crown for you actions. It is alway tempting to figure something is none of our business and go the other way. Knowing you were potentially stumbling into druggies or worse you extended your neck and went against your best judgement probably with a little tinge of fear in the back of your mind. That's what heroes do expose themselves to harm to improve someone else situation. We just had a retired college professor and his wife killed by feral dogs in their neighbor, there are all kinds of loose dogs and even wolves up in the mountains there, she may not have made it until the morning.

Pat yourself on the back a little, have a drink of your favorite brew and smile at yourself when you see yourself in the mirror.

As a father of three I can say without a doubt that you sir are a hero. Even if you don't want the title...
No good deed goes unrewarded, maybe those parents didn't get the chance to say thanks but I pray you receive the reward you deserve.

What a story! You are doing all of us a great service, as we will remember this if we are ever in a similar situation and wonder if we should react.

I hope the cops grill the parents over this.

Great story with a happy ending (I hope). I'm with you. This sure sounds like a serious case of child neglect. The sad part is that child will be back with her neglectful parents/family members. The thing is, you were put at that place and at that time for a reason and you did the right thing. Thank you for what you did and for sharing your story.

Jim Smith