I interviewed a dentist this week. His story will be online tomorrow and in the paper Sunday. He's a resident of Farmington Hills and works in Trenton. Oh, and he also saved a man's life at a University of Michigan football game. The most impressive part? He couldn't be more modest about it.

Marvin Sonne, sporting his UofM gear of course

I love a lot about being a journalist. I get to meet a lot of interesting people. Some are unhappy people complaining and some are those amazing people who just want to help others. Marvin Sonne put everything aside to give a stranger CPR in Ann Arbor a few weeks ago. He's one of those amazing people.

People are passionate about their sports teams and get highly offended when you talk negatively about them - trust me, I know (talk down on the Red Wings or Tigers and you've got yourself a fight!). And you can tell this guy is a sports man when you walk into his office in Trenton. Sports memorabilia is flaunted all over the large lobby and his office.

The story about Sonne saving a man has a lot of irony to it (you can check it out on our website to read all about it).

The group of men sitting behind him were badmouthing Michigan football, big time. Sonne said he was getting frustrated at some points, as we all naturally would.

However, that never crossed his mind when the Notre Dam fan behind him collapsed from a heart attack.

Now, CPR isn't something a dentist commonly performs. He is required to be trained in it because of his profession. I contacted Sonne and asked him to do an interview with me. His response was, "Only if this is about how important it is for people to learn CPR."

He doesn't consider himself a hero; he wants more people to learn CPR. He didn't boast about his bravery; he said it was fate for him to be connected with this man to remind people to learn how to handle emergency situations.

It's always nice to meet people like that. I know they are out there everywhere. That's the point of this blog post. Despite all of the negative stories journalists write and all of the bad people we meet, journalists are honored to meet people with amazing stories who we otherwise probably wouldn't meet.

Sonne said that when he talked to the man he saved and that man's family, they told him they could never again badmouth Michigan. While they will always root for Notre Dame, they won't root negatively for Michigan because of the care the man received from the fans and the hospital. Now, that's a statement.

The dentist told me over and over that he was just really glad that he was able to do what he could to keep the man alive until paramedics around. The paramedics' equipment is what finally brought the man back. But even the victim said that in a press release that he knows it was the fans around him who kept him alive long enough. That small act of chest compressions saved a life. I hope if something so tragic ever happens to me, that a good person is around to help.

Sonne told me, "If you save one person, you've saved the world."

Thanks to the good people in the world, you're making this a better place!

Be sure to check my facebook, twitter or website for the full story this weekend! Catch 'ya later, Internet World. :)

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can." - Sydney Smith