On that day in 1917, as the burning SS Mont-Blanc drifted towards the shore, train dispatcher Vince Coleman returned to his post in order to stop incoming trains. No one told him to, he knew it was certain death, but in doing so, he saved hundreds of lives. His final telegraph read thus:
He would have been killed instantly in the explosion. He left a wife and four children. It was an act of bravery and self-sacrifice to bring a tear to the eye.
Also Ellen Page got called a faggot there, so I guess that’s bad too.