Wow!!! .... Great story ....

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http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/8040...
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Lefler pulled the man to his feet but he couldn’t walk. So Lefler threw him over his shoulder and headed back out of the river. It was an even match. The rafter was about 5 feet 9 and 160 pounds, the same as Lefler. Getting back to shore in the dark meant finding a new, shorter route and crossing side channels, some ankle deep; others waist deep. On his way back Lefler kept one eye on the lights of nearby homes and one eye on the rafter. “He was moaning and groaning,” Lefler recalled. “I wanted to keep him awake.” As they reached the shore a quarter-mile away, an ambulance pulled up and took the rafter, a Maple Valley man in his mid-20s, to Auburn Regional Medical Center. Lefler – who with his wife Casandra has three children, ages 4 months to 5 years – is no stranger to public service, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said. A 1988 Rogers High School graduate, Lefler served four years in the Marines before joining the Sheriff’s Office in 1993. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he took a four-year leave of absence to rejoin the Marines. He did two tours in Iraq, including participating in the deadly offensive in Fallujah in 2004. He was wounded there and earned a Purple Heart. “I was nicked,” he said.

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good stuff