In 2008, Reader's Digest celebrated 13 ordinary citizens who unexpectedly found themselves confronted with desperate situations--and acted. Their stories are told here. You let us know who inspires you the most by voting in our Hero of the Year poll, and here are the nominees.
The man with the gun stood outside the Cape Coral, Florida, day-care center while terrified children huddled inside. Louise Zoller had arrived moments earlier with her 11-year-old daughter, Morgan, intending to pick up her two-year-old, Hannah. "Where is she?" the man muttered as he entered the building; he then fired one shot at Hannah's teacher. Zoller grabbed the man's arm, but he pushed her away and fired again. She somehow muscled him into a hallway and knocked the gun from his hand, then snatched it up and ran outside to arriving police officers. No children were harmed, but Hannah's teacher was dead, killed by her estranged husband. "I was just being a mom," Zoller says.
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