Subway savior slips away, and more

Subway savior slips away

Jessica Oshita would like to thank the stranger who saved her life. Last week, Oshita, 26, fainted and fell onto the tracks at a New York City subway station. As a train approached, a man jumped down to her but could not lift her up. Instead, he positioned her in the well between the rails before hoisting himself back onto the platform. Five cars passed over her before the train stopped and rescue workers could reach her. Her savior, meantime, calmly walked away and has not been identified. “This whole thing is a miracle,” said Oshita’s mother. “He is a guardian angel.”

Chihuahua nurses ophaned kittens back to health

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Nine starving, orphaned kittens have been nursed back to health—by a 2-year-old Chihuahua, who had recently suffered the loss of her own newborn puppy. Lisa Scribner, a veterinarian assistant at the Angel Animal Hospital in Vancouver, took in the abandoned kittens and was shocked when her dog, Buttercup, went straight up to them and started cleaning them. It wasn’t long before the hungry kittens latched on. “Buttercup was devastated when her puppy died,” Scribner says. “She still had milk and she took to these babies right away. She hasn’t left them since and is very protective.”

Lost World War II dog tags returned to vet's family

A deceased World War II vet’s dog tags have been recovered in Italy and returned to his family, 66 years after they were lost. Oscar Glomb, who passed away in 1998, served with the 36th Infantry and was wounded in a June 1944 battle near Gavorrano, Italy. He lost his dog tags in all the commotion. Recently, Daniele Bianchini, a retired police inspector, found them while searching the battle site with a metal detector, and tracked down the Glomb family in Buda, Texas. “It means so much to me because he kept wanting to get those dog tags back,” said Glomb’s widow, Dorothy. “We are just so thankful.”