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September 9, 2007

The Effect of Heroes

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 5:51 am

It Wasn’t a Movie

This morning I woke early as I often do. My mind was working on a problem. I found my way to a news story, called Heroes, by David Armano.

HEROES


The problem that woke me up so early fell away from my mind. My eyes got wide. My heart got open. I looked out the window at the thinnest crescent moon for the longest time. It blurred as I tried to find the word for what I was feeling at a cellular level.

The word was hope. I was proud to be human.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Click the title “Heroes” to read David Armano’s eyewitness account of a horrible train wreck and two young heroes.

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9 Comments to “The Effect of Heroes”

  1. September 9th, 2007 at 8:54 am
    David Armano said

    Liz, hope is a great word to describe this. I’m fortunate to have witnessed a rare event like this and happy not a single person was hurt.

    Here are some more details from WBBM
    http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/917312.php?contentType=4&contentId=892032

  2. September 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi David,
    Thank you for sharing the story and the link with the details. I was inspired and encouraged by it, because you passed it on. I’m grateful, too, that no one was hurt.

  3. September 10th, 2007 at 10:44 am
    Mike said

    Hi Liz,

    I was inspired and relieved to read this story. I remember when a Metra train tore a school bus apart in Fox River Grove (I lived in Cary at the time and drove through that intersection 10 minutes before the accident that day).

    Thank goodness for people like those young men!

    Mike

  4. September 10th, 2007 at 11:17 am
    ME Strauss said

    Yeah, Mike,
    This story so moved me. I was inspired and thankful too.

    I think I know about the train wreck you mention.

  5. September 11th, 2007 at 8:28 am
    Mihaela Lica said

    A touching story, but even more touching is the David’s ending: “Heroes still exist—and the real ones aren’t on a television show and don’t have special powers, they’re people like you and me.”

    But… to risk your life for another is a special power.

    It is.

  6. September 11th, 2007 at 9:16 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mihaela!
    You be they are . . . it takes an instinct to do the right thing that’s there before we even think.

    You are a hero. I know you. I know you are. :)

  7. September 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am
    Jon said

    I was actually lucky enough to take part in a rescue a couple of weeks ago where some firefighters saved four kayakers, so I know for sure that there are heroes, and they were in the water that day.

  8. September 11th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Jon,
    It IS refreshing to know that we still have heroes. I understand what you mean when you say you feel lucky to have been there. :)

  9. September 12th, 2007 at 10:16 am
    EMAC » Blog Archive » Toward a new ecology of journalism said

    […] David pleaded ‘for the demise of that horrible ‘citizen journalist’ meme’. Liz Straus, who pointed me to the story in the first place, said ‘Aw Doc, why the focus on citizen journalism and not the […]

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