Heroes are my hero.

"Then he worked his way up the bar, calmly taking life after life from the people seated there or scrambling for cover. One man tried to stop him.


Grabbing the only weapons at hand — bar stools — he tossed them at the gunman, even as the man aimed at him, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said Thursday after reviewing harrowing surveillance video of the massacre. The tactic created enough of a delay in the shooting that two or three other customers were able to bolt out the door to safety.

"My brother died in the World Trade Center," the man later told Seattle police, who did not release his name but provided an account of the interview. After his brother's death, he said, he resolved that if something like this ever happened, "I would never hide under a table."

The Seattle Times late Thursday identified the man as Lawrence Adams, 56."




I read this in an article this morning regarding the shooting in Seattle earlier this week.  Then I read it again. And again.  It brought tears to my eyes.  I've been following this story pretty closely since it happend relatively nearby to us, and I have so many friends and family members up there. The whole thing is horrible and it has again made me stop and wonder why people are so screwed up today (and then I have to remind myself that NOTHING is new under the sun.  This stuff has been going on since the dawn of time, but, once again, because of the combined forces of the media and the interweb, it seems like there is so much more going on becuse we hear about it quickly and more frequently than we did in the "dark ages." I kind of miss those days).
 
ANYWAY, That last paragraph got me.  What an amazing resolution.  What a great way to live and, in turn, probably help others to live has this man did here!  Can you imagine what things would be like if we were all this brave?  I am such a coward about so many things that I'm afraid I'd be one of the ones hiding under the table.  But you never know your own strength until you are tested, I guess (I hope I'm never tested like that, though). 
 
Lawrence Adams, thank you for being a hero.  You make me, and I'm sure others, want to be a stronger, better person.