Man’s hero pins on his police badge in Arlington

We never really know how our actions affect others, do we? And it was SO COOL of Sgt. Wegscheider to be at the ceremony!

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Quan Nguyen grew up cheering television’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they battled evil to protect the world. But it was the actions of a real-life crime fighter that inspired Nguyen, 25, to the ultimate moment of his life Thursday when he became an Arlington police officer.

Sgt. Scott Wegscheider of Colorado, the reason Quan Nguyen wanted to be a policeman, secures the new officer's badge.

That living hero, Sgt. Scott Wegscheider, was in town to pin the badge on Nguyen’s chest during graduation ceremonies for Arlington’s 40th police recruit class. It was the culmination of a relationship that began 17 years earlier in Colorado when Wegscheider saved the life of Nguyen’s older sister, Kim, after she fell into a neighbor’s pool during a party and stopped breathing.

The two saw each other briefly two days later at the hospital where Kim was taken but never formally met. Both moved on but never forgot each other or that June day in 1993.

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