Real Heroes
November 13th, 2009 | 
Author: I never could get into the television series called “Heroes”, largely because I believe if someone has super-powers it is not necessarily heroic to take bigger risks. For me, Hector was the hero in the story of Troy’s war and downfall; not Achilles. Achilles knew he was nigh onto immortal—he risked far less than the humbler hoplites around him!
But heroes do exist, perfectly mortal, red-blooded young Army members like PFCs Marquest Smith and Jeffrey Pearsall. In the confusion and horror that was the Ft. Hood Readiness Center, last week, these two twenty-one year olds acted heroically and at far greater risk to themselves than the legendary Achilles ever endured. They ran back INTO the building most others were fleeing, against self-interest and to save others.
I hope the Army recognizes their inititive and selflessness. And I hope society shows more interest in the struggles and successes of real heroes than television phonies.
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And Pearsall says: “Caring for wounded soldiers amid chaos “is a job we’re trained to do on the battlefield, and now it’s a job, obviously we have to do here in the United States too.”
How sad is that? To consider an American Base in the same light as a combat zone? These poor kids must feel as if there is no Safe Place anywhere.
That’s wrong. But how is it fixable?
Wrong it is; fixable not so much. American military members and families abroad have had this worry for a while—even in the 80’s in Germany, we had to educate our kids not to pick up any packages outdoors in the housing area. The Red Army Faction members had been seen on our post, and were targeting American installations. But in the heart of Texas? That was a shocker, and the killer one of them—an officer and doctor.