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* First Lieutenant [[wikipedia:John R. Fox|John Robert Fox]] called fire on his own position on December 26 1944 in a successful attempt to stall a German advance. His body was located in a counter-attack the next day, along with those of around 100 German soldiers.
* Captain [[wikipedia:Lawrence Oates|Lawrence Oates]], member of the Terra Nova Expedition (and expedition to the South Pole). While returning from the center of the South Pole with another three people (they were five but one died) his condition started to get worse due to frostbite and scurvy, slowing the others. He realized that due to him slowing them down the others wouldn't be able to survive. So, he asked them to [[Go On Without Me|leave him behind]]; when they [[No One Gets Left Behind|refused]], he said ''"I'm just going outside and may be some time"'', he put his boots and walked out of his tent into a -40cº blizzard.
* Marian Fisher, age 13, the oldest of ten girls taken hostage in the [[wikipedia:Amish school shooting|Amish school shooting]] in 2006: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140724152035/http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=2531138 "Shoot me first"]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/world/philippine-man-loses-own-life-after-saving-dozens-from-floods-20090928-g8o4.html Philippine man loses own life after saving dozens from floods ]
* [[Remember the Alamo!|The Alamo]] in general. The lost include [[Davy Crockett]].
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