What Really Happened in Aurora
This past week, something remarkable happened in Aurora Colorado. Unfortunately, in our sensationally driven society I'm afraid its being missed. If you watch the news, you will hear that some deranged lunatic cowardly opened fire on hundreds of innocent movie goers. Sadly, this lunatic is getting all the attention that he so sadistically desired.
But barely being recognized is what really happened. On that chaotic night in Aurora, Colorado we got to see placed on display the absolute highest level of human bravery and love. There were hero's of the most honorable kind that entered that theater disguised as regular people. Sadly, in our society that worships rock stars, movie stars, and the like, we have failed to fully appreciate true greatness. You see, in a moment these paragons of humanity went from casual movie goers to human shields as they threw their bodies between their loved ones and the evil that threatened them. In a split second, in the midst of immense confusion and uncertainty, they quickly and clearly cemented in their hearts the resolve to sacrifice themselves to save others.
A local politician, whom I will not grant the honor of naming, naively asked where the men where that night. He suggested that a real man might have stopped this lunatic, who weakly armored himself from head to toe so as not to experience any pain at all. Sadly, this politician is so detached from what true greatness looks like that he failed to see it. The only good thing about evil is that when it takes it's stage to inflict pain and suffering, it also sets the stage for it's counter part to shine. For evil attacked, but once again it was love that conquered. Sadly, if it were not for the actions of wickedness, the hero's within these individuals would have never been drawn out for the world to see. They would have lived their lives and eventually passed away and the world would have never known the type of giant whom had shared their midst.
It was once said that, "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." In few other cases has that been more true than it was that night in Aurora. Now it is up to us to ensure that it doesn't go unnoticed. We must ensure that the names that live on forever belong to the greatest among us not the worst.
God bless: Alex Sullivan, John Larimer, Jessica Ghawi, Micayla Medek, Jon Blunk, Alex Teves, Alexander "AJ" Boik, Gordon Cowden, Rebecca Wingo, Matt McQuinn, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, Ashley Moser, and Jesse Childress. May you all rest in peace, and God bless those who acted with the utmost heroics and survived. Perhaps if we made famous the names hero's rather than villains, some of the narcissists who will do anything to gain attention would turn to pursuing what is noble rather than what is evil. And for those who don't, may your names forever fade away into obscurity.
But barely being recognized is what really happened. On that chaotic night in Aurora, Colorado we got to see placed on display the absolute highest level of human bravery and love. There were hero's of the most honorable kind that entered that theater disguised as regular people. Sadly, in our society that worships rock stars, movie stars, and the like, we have failed to fully appreciate true greatness. You see, in a moment these paragons of humanity went from casual movie goers to human shields as they threw their bodies between their loved ones and the evil that threatened them. In a split second, in the midst of immense confusion and uncertainty, they quickly and clearly cemented in their hearts the resolve to sacrifice themselves to save others.
A local politician, whom I will not grant the honor of naming, naively asked where the men where that night. He suggested that a real man might have stopped this lunatic, who weakly armored himself from head to toe so as not to experience any pain at all. Sadly, this politician is so detached from what true greatness looks like that he failed to see it. The only good thing about evil is that when it takes it's stage to inflict pain and suffering, it also sets the stage for it's counter part to shine. For evil attacked, but once again it was love that conquered. Sadly, if it were not for the actions of wickedness, the hero's within these individuals would have never been drawn out for the world to see. They would have lived their lives and eventually passed away and the world would have never known the type of giant whom had shared their midst.
It was once said that, "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." In few other cases has that been more true than it was that night in Aurora. Now it is up to us to ensure that it doesn't go unnoticed. We must ensure that the names that live on forever belong to the greatest among us not the worst.
God bless: Alex Sullivan, John Larimer, Jessica Ghawi, Micayla Medek, Jon Blunk, Alex Teves, Alexander "AJ" Boik, Gordon Cowden, Rebecca Wingo, Matt McQuinn, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, Ashley Moser, and Jesse Childress. May you all rest in peace, and God bless those who acted with the utmost heroics and survived. Perhaps if we made famous the names hero's rather than villains, some of the narcissists who will do anything to gain attention would turn to pursuing what is noble rather than what is evil. And for those who don't, may your names forever fade away into obscurity.
Hear Hear! Well said Will. Within hours of the news I knew there were going to come stories of great sacrifice and bravery at the hands of some untrained and unexpected individuals. And sure enough, the stories have emerged. Had a cop or other armed and well trained sheepdog put this dastardly wolf down in the theater, we would have hailed them a hero, albeit with a certain level of "Well, of course, he/she was trained to do that!" in the background music. Well, we have some folks here that were NOT trained and they acted with great valor and courage..they acted honorably. Embrace the inner warrior!! Hoah!
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