This spring, feats of heroism aren’t confined to superhero movies. Witness the stirring exploits of three ordinary – or should we say extraordinary – heroes:

Saturday evening in Paris, Mamoudou Gassama scaled four balconies, hand over hand, to rescue a 4-year-old boy dangling from a railing. The child had been left home alone. “I saw all these people shouting, and cars sounding their horns,” the 22-year-old Mali native said. “So I crossed the road to go save him.” Afterwards, he said, “I started to shake, I could hardly stand up.”

One day earlier, Noblesville, Ind., middle school teacher and former college football player Jason Seaman tackled a student who invaded his classroom and started shooting.

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