Hero tells President Bush: "Nope."

how i would love to shake his hand !!!! bush is indeed a publicity whore. as his world crumbles further, watch him use his office to bolster his sagging fortunes. he will try to use anything and anyone to whitewash his image. and he was elected twice!!!

luv,

ron

What a lovely, heartwarming story. Makes one feel good to be human! He seems to have a pretty shrewd head too, resisting the photocall with insincere people who just want to use him. Good luck to him.

Thanks for the seed, Beevine.

I am now even more impressed by this young man.

Can someone clip it to the Sweet Fennel group?

I have clipped it Thura, thanks for suggesting.

he left town for northern Minnesota late on Friday, overwhelmed by the attention and concerned that his co-workers were being overlooked.

Good for him. It's good to see someone who can do a good deed and then not look for all the attention they can get.

We need more people like this.

Hi beevine thats how true hero's behave, the false ones try to be senator or the president, I am saluting this guy as I know he is the real thing H.E.R.O

I would have asked for a photo op surrounded by anti-war activists asking questions.

This young man must be a TERRORIST LOVER! He obviously hates Bush, which makes him anti-American, which also means he wants the United States to LOSE THE WAR!

Sarcasm off.

Actually my first thought was that he should have said yes and when the cameras were around sounded off on bush in the worst way. Then the thought occured that they probably had him sign a paper saying he wouldn't do something like that or he would be subject to the status of an enemy combatant.

This humble courageous young man did a very heroic deed......that Hernandez chooses not to step into the spotlight as some kind of self-proclaimed hero by posing with our President is not in any way a slap in the face to our President....though nice try with the spin here. True heros often dodge publicity.

Beevine: PS - the true headline of this article reads: Bridge Hero Gets Offer: Paid Tuition

Awesome. And it's such a wonderfully Minnesotan response as well, no venom, no long lectures as to why he won't go, no political tirades, just "Nope. Goin' fishin'."

He defiantly has his priorities straight.

A woman offered Alvin York $25,000 to father her child. He turned her down. He never used his Congressional Metal of Honor to enrich himself.

There's a real hero, a very rare breed indeed.

This guy has more strength of character and honor then the President, who just wants to use him to boaster his own lack of the same. It's People like this is what Makes me proud to be an American.

Personally, I don't know or care what Hernandez's motives were for turning down the photo op. But I am delighted to hear that President Bush has been prevented from coopting at least one person's heroic actions for a stage prop to glorify himself. Firemen and police in New York after 9/11, the men on board the aircraft carrier, the soldiers in the mess hall on Thanksgiving 2003, rescue workers in New Orleans -- he's used them all as extras in the little films about his own greatness, and it's nauseating.