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Each year, Oakland Elementary School in Denver holds an annual "Courage to Stand" assembly, featuring multimedia character education programs developed by Companies for Kids. Companies for Kids is an organization that encourages students to stand up for what is right when it comes to issues like bullying and peer pressure.
This year's assembly on November 28 was quite special, however. It was preceded by special recognition for one of the student body's own heroes, nine-year-old fourth grader Ricardo Caldera.
Ricardo's extraordinary act of heroism took place on the evening of October 26 when two masked gunmen broke into the Caldera family's home in Montbello, northeast of downtown Denver. Ricardo's mother, Rosa Caldera, yelled to her two sons to hide in a basement bedroom. Ricardo instinctively threw himself over his four-year-old brother, Esteban.
One of the would-be robbers fired a shot into the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Boy takes bullet to save brother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Ricardo...