Tia Hernlen: The Night a Child’s Courage Redefined Resilience
A 5-Year-Old Dialing 911 While the World Crumbles. In the hushed pre-dawn hours of March 2005, a Florida home became the stage for a nightmare. Five-year-old Tia Hernlen awoke not to cartoons or cereal, but to gunshots—a sound no child should ever recognize. What followed was a chilling test of survival: her parents lay gravely…