NO GREATER LOVE

While perusing the internet today, I read several stories about heroes around the world. I decided to share them with you because they deserve to be shared, even on an obscure little blog like this. Just ordinary people, doing their jobs, in extraordinary fashion.

Hero from New Zealand


Pes Fa'aui is a traffic warden in Waitakere, New Zealand. In the middle of a seemingly ordinary workday, Mr. Fa'aui tackled a knife welding man who had just stabbed two men and was advancing on a police officer. Without hestitation or regard for his own safety, he jumped on the killer and brought him to the ground. Mr. Fa'aui was cut severely enough during the struggle to require several stitches, but returned to work a few days after the incident.

Mr. Fa'aui denies that he's a hero. He said that the real heroes are those who face danger everyday in the armed forces, emergency services, and hospitals.


Babysitter in Idaho
In northern Idaho, a teenage babysitter shot and killed a black bear that was trying to break into the home where she was caring for three toddlers. The children were playing in the backyard when the babysitter was alerted by the oldest child screaming, "Bear!". She ran into the backyard, grabbed the children, and pulled them into the home. While the bear tried to claw through a door into the house, the babysitter loaded a hunting rifle. When the bear looked away, she opened the door and shot him.

I can't show you a picture of this heroine or even tell you her name. She refused to allow reporters to publicize her identity.

The last story is the type of which movies are made. Young, handsome serviceman, live grenade, ultimate sacrifice.

I am opposed to wars. They are an abhorrant waste of a country's resources, especially their most precious resource, human lives, but sometimes they are necessary, thrust upon a country by the stupidity of greedy, arrogant, and ambitious men. War is by nature horrific, but with that horror comes more tales of heroism, friendship, loyalty, than can be recited in a war's lifetime. This is only one of those stories.


Two weeks before he was scheduled to return home, 25 year old Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, on the left in the picture, was standing near the door of an Iraqi structure when a grenade hit him in the chest and bounced to the floor. "Mikey" threw himself on top of it, sacrificing his own life but saving the lives of four other SEALS.

This wasn't the first time, Monsoor behaved heroically. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions May 9 in Ramadi, when he and another SEAL pulled a team member shot in the leg to safety while dodging gunfire.

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
The Bible - John 15:13