“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
- Robert Kennedy, To Seek a Newer World, 1968
06-08-2008 |
1 Comment »Wanted to draw your attention to Logan’s story. He refers to himself as a “courageous coward”. Logan realized during and after his first tour of duty in Iraq that as a Christian he could no longer justify his work. So he started the process of asking to be given non-combatant conscientious objector status. This is the first of 3 video clips on his web site. In this clip, he says
A large part of my life was destroying as much as possible of whatever I was told to–human life, personal property
I don’t think that Christians are called to kill anybody at anytime, and that put me in difficulty with regards to my job, because my professional obligations were pretty much to do that.
H T to Joe for this one.
04-25-2007 |
18 Comments »LA Times/Washington Post — If you were lucky enough to have a choice, there were only two ways to go on the campus of Virginia Tech on Monday morning: away from danger or toward it. Engineering professor Liviu Librescu chose the second one, saved a classroom full of students and became a hero — at the cost of his life.
As a child, he had survived the Holocaust. As an adult, he had survived persecution for defying Romania’s brutal communist regime during the Cold War. At last, with their children grown, he and his wife, Marlena, seemed to have found a safe haven on a quiet university campus in rural Virginia.
But on Monday, trouble found him once more. With bursts of gunfire rattling through the second floor of Norris Hall, Librescu, 76, closed his classroom door and urged his students to escape out the windows, recalled senior Caroline Merrey of Baltimore, the third student to jump.
As they fled, Librescu held the door shut with his body as the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, tried to force his way in. Moments after the last student leapt to safety, Cho apparently succeeded in forcing the door open and shot Librescu to death.
04-18-2007 |
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