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Show . A HERO EVERY DAY Brave Deeds of Men in America's Fighting Service. A- f A few months3 ago an American seaman sea-man who was swimming In tropical waters, was attacked by a school of sharks, and his leg was bitten off. The fins of four other sharks were visible near by, and it seemed certain that the unfortunate sailor would soon be torn to pieces, when Wallace Odell Prater, a machinist, dived I into the bloodstained water and brought i the wounded man safely to the ship. In ; recognition of this rare act of bravery, j Prater was awarded a gold lifesaving medal by the secretary of the treasury. He lives in Stafford, Kan. |