For the last few days, the articles have been about the Muslim miscreant who murdered over a dozen people and wounded over 2 dozen more at Ft Hood. This article is going to be about the people who showed the brighter side of the human spirit that pervades our military. The number of young men and women who despite great risk, and even injury, put protecting the lives of their fellow soldiers above their own. We have a name for these people people in the English language. We call them HEROES. The list of acts of uncommon valor or at least going above the call, are numerous and will probably never be all known. I will endeavor to recount as many as I can and will use many posts as it takes to do so as the information becomes available.

I’ll start with Ft Hood Police Sgt Kimberly Munley, the woman who put an end to the murderous rampage by shooting the murderer 4 times despite sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. The petite 34 yr old, was on the scene in 3 minutes and upon seeing the murderer chasing some intended victims immediately put her training to work shooting the murderer multiple times, stopping him from shooting any more victims.

Another hero of the day was a 19 yr old Army nutritionist, named Amber Bahr who tore her shirt to bandage a wounded comrade and then carried him out of the building to be evacuated, despite being wounded herself.

There was 21 yr old Marquest Smith who reentered the building to pull victims to safety only abandoning his efforts upon running into the shooter as he tried to reenter the second time. He escaped uninjured but with a hole through his boot where the bullet hit but missed his foot. One of Smith’s friends, Jeffrey Pearsall pulled his pick up truck up and loaded victims into the bed to get them to the hospital faster. Many others used their personal vehicles to transport the injured to the hospital, and even patients at the hospital helped unload patients at the hospital emergency rooms.

We have heroes in this country. They don’t play professional sports. They don’t have big recording contracts. And they don’t get nearly enough credit. Nor do most of them desire any.