“The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.”
“I want to say we were there a good 5 or 6 hours, ... The water just stayed there. Normally, like with (Hurricane) Camille, it came in quick and went out quick. This just kept rising and then it stayed there.”
“They'd get Deanna up there and tell her, 'Either you jump or we're throwing you,' ... She didn't have any choice. I don't know how those kids never got hurt.”
