"Bravest boy of Australia five years still rewarded after his death

With his mother Donna, he was then dragged into the car through the water quickly emerged. Both died in the so-called 'flash flood' in the Australian Toowoomba, which dozens of people would cost lives.

Highest Australian award

But Jordan's brother Blake survived the disaster in January 2011. And John Tyson, father of Jordan and Blake, has since fought relentlessly to have given his eldest son what he deserved, the highest Australian award in the field of valor. After the government had failed to fulfill an earlier promise, John organized a petition. Signed in less than no time 300,000 Australians.

"For years the bravest boy of Australia overlooked ," his father wrote this weekend in a moving story on the news News.com.au. "Thanks to you, that has changed today." Brisbane John was awarded the medal for bravery on which the name of his eldest son is.

Chaos lightning water

John looks back at the dramatic event. "They must have been terrified. Jordan could not swim, but found himself in the middle of the chaos of the raging water. He could panic." But instead, John writes, he guided two men to the aid of one piece to the car in which he sat with his mother Donna and brother Blake.

"Jordan was the closest. There was almost no time, so she reached for him, to save him anyway. He pushed them away and let them clearly know they are little brother had to tackle first. A few seconds later they were dragged into the car, to their deaths. "

Quiet, quiet, shy boy

Previously, when Jordan was still alive, he was named sometimes shy by his father. All wrong, John realizes father now. "He was afraid of water and of the dark, and we joked sometimes that he was a real fear trousers. And yes, he was also a quiet, peaceful boy. But he was tough. The toughest I have ever encountered."

And tough, says John, so is not the same as "loud and arrogant and with a big mouth."Referring to Jordan's last words: "Tough is sometimes no more than four words long, quietly and firmly pronounced by a boy who could not swim when he threatened to go under the water Anyone can be tough if circumstances demand it.".

Fighting for your child

That he is as a father to the utmost straining to Jordan to deliver a posthumous medal for bravery, he finds only logical. "I was not there when Jordan that fateful decision took all his fears had put aside and did something startling. So it only right that I could do as a father, was standing up for him, fight for him. Causing me to have something for him reached that he himself, out of embarrassment, probably never dared to accept. "

That is the message that has left his little boy, says Father John. "Be inspired by Jordan, as he inspires me and thousands of others. Tell his story and show that courage comes in all shapes and sizes, in all ages and in all forms."

By Editorial RTL News: Photo: EPA