The hero who will not be

No matter who has told hundreds of times. Or who already have read many others. When Daniel Hernandez tells the sequence of events that followed the bullet that hit in the head by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the stomach stretches and you, almost certainly, will arise the question: "What have I done?". For although the world seems a heroic resolution and his nerve to apply pressure and hold the head that had just one shot break open, Hernandez, 20, refuses to be considered a hero.

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, had to joke about it during his speech in Tucson in honor of the victims and say that he liked or did not like it was. Enough of modesty. Hernandez works in the State of Arizona Office of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. I had done previously in 2008 as an intern.

Great admiration for her and believes that nobody has fought "for Arizona and its citizens" as Giffords. The day of the attack at the mall Tuscany, north of Tucson, Hernández was preparing the meeting with the citizens when he heard gunshots. "I saw everybody running and Gabby lying on the floor," he explains.

"I ran to where the bullets came." If these statements do not prove the wood that is made is that then there are no heroes. "Gabby was lying on his blood, got up to would not choke on her and held her head." No, Hernandez has no medical training. "Only a basic knowledge of first aid." "Those who have worldwide," he says.

"Keep calm", that is the explanation for its success. "If I had been led by the first impulse I had been knocked down or run out." Again modesty: "I did what I had to do, it might have been anybody." Hernandez, a student at the University of Arizona, has political pulp. For example, does not say whether the tragedy has changed or not their views on gun ownership.

Neither wants to talk about immigration reform, although he notes that his father is American but his mother Nogales, Mexico, "a legal resident with a visa, but not a citizen of this country." Despite being represented in the community ever homosexualde Tucson, diverts the response and opens wide horizons when he said that if politics would enter into one of the few politicians who work openly as gays in the U.S..

"My priority is education," says clearly stating his principles. "I've worked with many groups committed to equality of opportunity," he adds. Hernandez lives a carousel of emotions from a week ago. Now you have to leave. Maybe when the media stop taking his agenda has time to reflect and realize what he did.

Maybe then and do not leave your mouth so lightly the phrase "like everybody else."

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