What Anybody Would Do

Categories
Politics

As I'm writing this, the voting is going on in Alabama.

I'm concerned that the outcome will be difficult, when you read this, you will already know.

So, as always, its healthy to remember ALL the great good that goes on in the world.

 

From MSN-Melissa Chan:

When bullets rang out at the Route 91 Harvest country-music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, Jonathan Smith could have fled. Instead, the 30-year-old father of three raced back toward danger to help about 20 strangers—many of whom were too frozen in fear to move. He picked up a woman off the ground and carried her to safety. He lifted another who had fallen, and he roused many to start running. “I just did what anybody would do,” says Smith, who services copiers for a living. “No one deserves to be in that situation and be left like that.”

Fifty-eight people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, and more than 500 were wounded—­including Smith, who was shot while helping two young girls who were hiding behind a mini SUV. (The bullet is still lodged in the lower left side of his neck.) But because many people, like Smith, sacrificed their own safety to help others escape the line of fire, countless lives were also saved.

 

These are some of the lives saved.

 

Survivors

 

After the massacre, one of the people whom Smith had helped recognized him on TV and emailed to thank him. “I was the lady you saw fall in front [of] you on the sidewalk outside of the concert,” wrote Brenda Sillito. “I don’t have the right words to tell you how amazing you are for all you did that night and helping so many people, but you are.”

Sillito, 60, of Canada, says many people ran past her as she was lying on the sidewalk within range of gunfire. Smith was the only one to stop. “It took me at least a week after I tracked him down to write the email because I wanted to use the right words,” she says. “I wanted him to really understand how important he was to me that night. I feel, honestly, that he saved my life.”

 

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken:

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."

-Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

Comments

Gideon Schein

One of my favorite blogs ever! Way to go Casey. Truly beautiful and one of my favorite sonnets. And sanity prevailed for a change in Alsbama.

Submitted by MarilynGenoa on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 01:42

Permalink
Marilyn Genoa

My daughter's words after the election results were in "People are good"----as evidenced by your Blog.
Let's continue to hope more good than otherwise.

Add new comment

Restricted HTML

  • Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote cite> <code> <ul type> <ol start type> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <h6 id>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.