On August 20, Ms. Tuff was working at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in GA when a gunman stormed into the school. He held her captive, sporadically firing his gun in her direction. Ms. Tuff remained calm and talked to the gunman, calmed him down and eventually got him to put down his gun without harming anyone.
She later said “He said that he didn’t have any reason to live and that he knew he was going to die today…I knew that if he got out that door he was gonna kill everybody.”
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Ms. Tuff's actions undoubtedly saved childrens' lives and she deserves the highest recognition we can give her. She epitomizes what we should all, as Americans, aspire to be.