http://www.wfaa.com/community/Dallas-Scouts-honored-for-heroism-82569282.html by SHELLY SLATER / WFAA-TV Posted on January 24, 2010 at 10:45 PM ****** RICHARDSON — It's been more than two years since two local Boy Scouts used a combination of common sense and their scout training to save their friend, injured when a model rocket launch went awry. On Sunday night, Chris Rogers and Joshua Raines of Dallas were honored for their quick thinking to save fellow Scout Connor McNeil. "It was a really normal launch," Chris recalled. "It was just a windy day, and the wind caught it and it angled down at Connor." "I just looked up and it impaled me in the chest," Connor said. "At first, I just thought it was on top of his shoulder," Chris said. "It was hot and he was screaming." But it was much more serious than that. "It went through and cracked two ribs and lodged in my lung," Connor said. So Chris Rogers took of his shirt and stuck it around Conner's arm and ran for help. Josh Raines stayed behind, offering pressure and words of encouragement. "I kept applying pressure and telling him, 'It's all right; you're going to be fine; you're going to make it through this,'" Josh recalled. Conner did survive, and on Sunday night, his friends received the Boy Scouts of America Heroism Award for taking action to save a life. E-mail sslater@wfaa.com