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Rodney Wood in Hannibal Mo, while riding on his Motorcycle saw a Woman being attacked by two men. He Stopped to help a Stranger, Outnumbered..He lost his life, but saved the Stranger....

Courage....Over Saftey..

Martin Luther King, seeing injustice, Speaks out for equal Rights in a Time where lynchings were still common and People threatened him and his family just for speaking the truth.  A man who peacfully protested things he knew were wrong, lost his life to an assassin on a Balcony in Memphis TN.

Courage...Over Saftey...

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor, being the only one near the Door on a Rooftop in Iraq, was hit in the Chest by a Grenade that then bounced to the Floor.  Without thought for himself, he immediatley jumped onto the Grenade saving the Lives of the four other Navy Seals in the Sniper Blind.  Michael Monsoor Died of his wounds.

Courage...Over Saftey...

William Johnson was assigned to Engine 276 out of Engine House 6 of  the FDNY.  He along with the other men from Engine House 6 and Engine House 9 ran up the Stairs of the North Tower on September 11th 2001.   After the other Tower collapsed all Firefighters were ordered out.  Shortly after, the North Tower Collapsed.....William Johnson didn't make it out, he was last seen helping an injuried Civilian somewhere near the 30th Floor.

Courage...Over Saftey....

Giovanni Palatucci joined the Italian Police Force in 1936 where he was assigned to be in Charge of the Port of Palatucci the Adriatic seaport of Fiume (present day Rijeka, Croatia). When anti-Jewish laws were enacted in 1938, he used his authority as chief of the Foreigners' Office to forge travel papers that permitted hundreds of Jews flee persecution in Eastern Europe and settle in Fiume, sometimes even providing them with funds. However, his effort became riskier in 1943, when Mussolini's government fell and the Nazis occupied the place. In defiance against orders to arrest and deport the Jews in the area, he made sure that they were sent instead to a prison-turned refugee camp managed by his uncle, Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci, in Campania southern Italy, by destroying documented records of some 5,000 Jewish refugees, thus saving them from certain death in concentration camps. When his activities were discovered in 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to Dachau, where he died just a few months shy of his 36th birthday

Courage...Over Saftey....

 Maybel Pu’a is a 20 year old man that works for Starkist Samoa Inc in the Village of Amanave  located in far western Tutuila Samoa.  He and another Youth ran into the water after seeing Dorothy Lautoa, her three year old daughter and two year old niece being swept out ot sea.  Dorothy and her children were returned to shore safley, but Maybel drowned in the process of saving them.   This happened on Thursday December 31st, 2008.

Courage....Over Saftey...

16 Year Old Margaret Reece stood outside watching her New England  home of 12 years burn when someone said that Koen, the youngest of  her four siblings was still inside.  Without hesitation she ran back into the burning house to find him. Shortly after the house exploded.......She never came back out.   When they located their Bodies, they were found laying next to each other. Margaret did make it to her Brother but tragically they were both overwhelmed by the smoke and fire.

Courage....Over Saftey...

 

Courage today is something that may seem to be in short supply.  But when we stop to take count, we realize it's there, but only chosen as a path  by  a  Few. 

We see it whenever someone signs up for the Military or decides to join the Police or Fire Department.  When someone decides that they have to act instead of standing by and being a spectator.  When someone does what they know is right,  even though they are terrified and everyone else is telling them to not get involved...... to forget it ....... or not to rock the Boat.... 

I propose we make a New Years Resolution.........  

 

To Value Courage...      Over Saftey....

 

Because once we all understand that a Stranger's Life,  a Strangers Liberty and A Strangers Freedom......is just as important as our own.....

 

This Country...........This World.....Will be a Better Place....For us All..