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El Paso Hero Gets Emotional Talking About Deadly Massacre: ‘I’m Just Focused On The Kids I Could Not Get’

Amanda Prestigiacomo
El Paso Hero Gets Emotional Talking About Deadly Massacre: ‘I’m Just Focused On The Kids I Could Not Get’
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On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 21 innocents in cold blood and injuring dozens more. The horror was only compounded when the vicious attack was followed by a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio early Sunday morning, where nine more were fatally shot.

In the midst of the chaos and predictable political point-scoring by presidential candidates, pundits, and media figures, one man rightly caught the attention of the nation: Glendon Oakley, a soldier stationed at Fort Bliss who ran toward the sounds of gunfire in that El Paso-area Walmart and risked his own life to save countless lives.

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