Charles Albert Poland Jr., a 66-year-old male school bus driver, was killed on January 29, 2013, in Midland City, Alabama, during a heroic attempt to protect the children on his bus. On that Tuesday afternoon, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran named Jimmy Lee Dykes boarded the Dale County school bus and demanded that Poland hand over two boys, aged six and eight. Poland refused to comply and stood in the aisle to block Dykes's path to the students. The tense confrontation lasted for several minutes,
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