VIDEO: Rick Telander talks about heroic Americans aboard train in Belgium

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After Americans aboard a train en route from Amsterdam to Paris helped subdue a gunman, they are being lauded as heroes.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Telander talks about their heroics in the video above and relates their actions to sports.

“Take those lessons and realize that you can save people around you,” Telander said.