It’s Friday morning and I’m watching CNN. I’m half awake and frankly, between the extreme heat this week and my allergies, I’m just wiped out. I feel like sleeping for a week and that seriously scares me.
CNN just had on the mom of one and the wife of another of the heroes from flight 93, the flight that went down in PA on September 11. I know, a lot of people have been jaded over the years to exactly what a “hero” is. I mean time after time public figures have been called “heroes” only to have them publicly disgraced, discredited, or involved in scandal. It’s a trend in our culture, a sad one, at that. For every act of heroism someone is honored for, there’s 4 of 5 more (mainly false) acts put out there to discredit their roles or tarnish their reputations. That’s just how our society works.
I call the folks on flight 93 heroes, because frankly, I don’t know what else to call them. The cockpit voice recorder and the telephone records show that they knew that they were going to die. They knew the hijackers were on a suicide mission. They knew they were on a plane that was destined to kill more people and they gave their lives to make sure that no one else got hurt. They did what (I hope) any of us would have done — they didn’t die passively. They went down swinging. While I’m sure the ultimate plan was to get the hijackers out of that cockpit and somehow land the plane, that didn’t happen, and they didn’t think twice about that before storming the cockpit.
I’m glad that the morbid stories haven’t come forward about the lives of these people. I’m glad the vultures haven’t come out and tarnished the stories of these people by revealing that this guy or that girl had something embarrassing in their past. Why? Because all that matters and all they should be judged for in the public is their last moments — and in those last moments they worked to stop others from getting hurt or killed. That’s all that matters.
On that note, be safe all.
k9
Hey all,
Popping in for a quick note that I should get a chance to update links in the links area on SUNDAY afternoon. If you’ve sent me anything or if you want your link added, please send them to reallycoolsite@aol.com.
Thanks,
k9