Joseph Malinowski, now known on TikTok as “Lieutenant Dan,” told NBC News that he'll only leave his boat if it begins to break apart in the storm.
Joseph Malinowski, now known on TikTok as “Lieutenant Dan,” told NBC News that he'll only leave his boat if it begins to break apart in the storm. was walking his usual route from school in mid-September when he encountered something out of the ordinary: a man in a sailboat, caught in the wind and being dragged out to sea.
Malinowski said that at 16 years old he had his leg amputated after he was hit by a car. After their encounter, Concannon compared Malinowski with Forrest Gump’s Lieutenant Dan, a veteran amputee whose shrimp boat was the only vessel to miraculously make it out of “Hurricane Carmen.”captioned “Lieutenant Dan vs Hurricane Helene” on Sept. 25. It’s been viewed 1.2 million times. As viewers flocked to his account, they became increasingly concerned with — and enthralled by — Malinowski’s story.
Concannon kept posting videos featuring Malinowski, publishing over 24 updates in the last several weeks. He also launched a GoFundMe page for Malinowski that has raised over $22,000 and counting. For “Lieutenant Dan,” the gesture did more than change his financial situation. “God put on my heart to come here. I came here. I’m not going to run with a little weather. God didn’t send me here to die,” Malinowski told NBC News.
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