WASHINGTON, D.C. – A northwestern Minnesota woman who drowned last summer is being honored for pulling several children to safety near a dam before she went under.
Eighteen-year-old Raina Neeland of rural Bagley was posthumously awarded the Single Act of Heroism Award Thursday by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The Citizens Honor panel said, “Neeland was selected for her courageous act when she rescued three young cousins after they were swept over the Clearwater Dam at Clearwater Lake.”
Bystanders performed C-P-R on Neeland before paramedics arrived, but they were unable to revive her.
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