Service before self.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Airman Joshua Johnson helps a woman and her two-year-old son from a drowning car)

Last December, Airman Joshua Johnson, who is stationed at Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, visited his hometown of Kellyville, Oklahoma, during Christmas leave. While there the 18-year-old airman went to Tulsa to visit his girlfriend, Brittany Campbell. His intention was to propose to Miss Campbell on a bridge over the Arkansas River.

Soon after the couple became engaged, the momentous occasion suddenly took on new meaning. "We went back to the car and just as we were getting ready to drive off, out the corner of my eye, I can see a car drive off into the river," Johnson said, in an interview with WLOX news in Biloxi.

The car was driven by a woman named Detura Bills, who had her two-year-old son, Brandon, with her.

Johnson jumped into the icy river while his fiancee remained behind, worried that the man she loved was risking his life. She recalled thinking that Johnson might die. Miss Campbell told WLOX what happened when Johnson reached the partially submerged car: "He was banging on there to tell them to open the door and the lady got out ...