7. Jorge Munoz Zapata – Second on our list of heroic rescue stories throughout history like Cedric Herrou is the story about an immigrant, Munoz, or The Angel of Queens, who became a citizen in 1987, after arriving to the U.S. He feeds the immigrant and day worker population of Queens, NY. President Obama awarded him the Citizen’s Medal in 2010 for providing meals to thousands. He cooks and hands out the food nightly from a budget based solely from his bus driver salary and donations.
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