backdrop for movies like home alone and ferris buhler s day off. police say a gunman fired on people along the parade route from a rooftop. a barrage of bullets just after 10:00 a.m., causing spec to it tors, mostly families with children, both young and old, to scatter. right now officials say the victims range from 8 to 85 years old. five adults died at the scene, a sixth person later passed away at the hospital. witnesses describing chaos where strollers and belongings lay scattered on the streets that have become a crime scene. i picked up my kids and ran again, i put them in a garbage dumpster, and then i ran back to look for my partner and her daughter, and i saw people shot on the ground. all of a sudden, there was a stampede of people coming, and then i realized it was gunshots. i literally thought to myself, this is how it s going to end. we hope to learn more about a man who they say has not been charged but is a person of interest. within eight hours after
in a flight to keep firing on the enemy. even when that m-60 was hit by enemy fire causing it to explode and send shrapnel into birdwell s face, chest, arms and hands, he remained on the battlefield. when he was ordered to load onto the medevac helicopter, he complied. this i find amazing, only to crawl right back off the other side and to keep on fighting. that s what you call taking orders and causing trouble. god love you. only after reinforcements arrive and after he helped treat the evacuees, his fellow wounded, did specialist birdwell agree to evacuate himself. at the time he received a silver star for outstanding heroism on the battlefield. it took decades for his commanding officer, then general glenn otis, to realize that birdwell had not received the full honor he earned. in retirement general otis made