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Why A Hero For Our Time?
My first post about Jeanne Assam called her a hero for our time.
Jeanne Assam is someone who was in the right place at the right time and acted in the right manner. Her past is not important. Neither is her future. She did the correct thing when it needed to be done.
I’ve speculated here and on other blogs about why so few Medals of Honor have been awarded. I cite the Tillman and Lynch affairs. The military is so afraid of the media at this point, and so afraid that someone they name an honest-to-God hero will not be perfect that the awards are being held up for intense investigations.
Jeanne Assam was forced off the Minneapolis PD for a BS reason. She lied during an investigation about whether or not she swore at a bus driver. Come on! That’s grounds for dismissal? How many male officers have been similarly dismissed?
There’s a blemish. So, what? What could those events have to do with what happened last Sunday? Nothing at all.
Anyone could be a hero. A drunken, wife-beating, neo-Nazi could be a hero at the right time and place. No one, until they are dead, is incapable of an act of goodness.
Jeanne Assam is a hero for our time. She went towards possible death with a prayer on her lips and the courage of a believer in her heart. As we learn more about her, she will not be perfect. None of us are. Only one ever was.
So, let us rejoice that she stopped a murderer from killing anyone else. Let us rejoice that she was praying and had faith at a time when it really mattered.
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What Jeanne did is the stuff of legends. That the media would try to crucify her for a past indescretion proves the saying that “no good deed will go unpunished”. But however many times she or others give thanks to God, remember it was an extreme Christian home schooling program that may have created this problem.
I am moved and proud of Jeanne Assam being there and being calm and steady to do what was needed. It takes steady, trained nerves to do what she did. And I am quite pleased to find that she is a member of that church and a volunteer guard rather than hired security. It makes it even more impressive that she was able to act so well under fire.
However, I truly hope and pray that now people will be in quiet admiration of her and also the good that can be done. I pray that she is allowed to go on with her life and not be overly idolized by the media. She is giving the praise to God. And I pray that she is able to go on being herself and full of her life without the media taking liberties with her liberty.