Hero of the Year 2008

Our Everyday Heroes risk their own lives to help people in trouble. Learn about the people who touched us the most this past year and find out who was named our 2008 Hero of the Year.
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Everyday Hero: Terrorist Tracker
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Photographed by Steven G. Smith

On 9/11, after watching the horror of the falling towers on TV in her Montana home, Shannen Rossmiller was so enraged, she began a new career—scanning jihadist sites on the Internet. She studied Arabic and posed as a member of Al Qaeda to entice would-be terrorists in e-mail exchanges.

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those who have qualities of a HERO, never worry what would be the outcome of any such incident but theyBy rajeev56, on 08/27/2008

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