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.
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.
David Armano says
September 9, 2007 at 8:54 AMLiz, 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
ME Strauss says
September 9, 2007 at 9:09 AMHi 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.
Mike says
September 10, 2007 at 10:44 AMHi 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
ME Strauss says
September 10, 2007 at 11:17 AMYeah, Mike,
This story so moved me. I was inspired and thankful too.
I think I know about the train wreck you mention.
Mihaela Lica says
September 11, 2007 at 8:28 AMA 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.
ME Strauss says
September 11, 2007 at 9:16 AMHi 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. 🙂
Jon says
September 11, 2007 at 11:02 AMI 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.
ME Strauss says
September 11, 2007 at 1:59 PMHi 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. 🙂