Injured France train hero Spencer Stone returns home to U.S.

CBS News ^ | 9-4-15 | CBS

[WL-law]

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The U.S. Air Force airman who was injured when he and two childhood friends tackled a heavily armed gunman on a Paris-bound train returned to his native California Thursday night.

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone arrived at about 8:30 p.m. at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, near Sacramento.

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Stone has been undergoing medical treatment in Germany since he, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento college student Anthony Sadler, all childhood friends from the Sacramento area, subdued the gunman on a passenger train speeding through Belgium on Aug. 21.

Skarlatos and Sadler have already returned to the U.S.

Leslie Andrus, whose husband works at Travis Air Force Base, was among those who gathered to welcome Stone home. "He put his life on the line and took this guy down and saved many lives, I'm pretty sure of," Andrus said. "Not too many people would do that."

Master Sgt. Tanya Hubbard, Stone's former supervisor at Travis Air Force Base who was also there to greet him, said "We're just very proud of him. And it's not really a surprise to any of us what he did. He's got a lot of integrity. He's just an all-around great guy."

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Dave Nobis, Stone's basketball coach at Del Campo High School, remembers him as a kid who wanted no special attention. "Quiet and humble," he told CBS Sacramento. "Just making sure he didn't go outside the box, or break any rules or anything like that."

The station says the three friends met as students at Fair Oaks Freedom Christian School, a faith-based K-12, where the school marquee now reads "Make a friend who makes a difference."

[WL-law]

Key paragraph is the final paragraph. The three Americans were classmates, we knew, but I had read nothing about them meeting at a Christian School. Seems like the media just edited that part out of their stories.

Amazing that the media doesn't need to conspire, its automatic,they just all have the same prejudices.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for your service HERO and God Bless!

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for your service HERO and God Bless!

[pfflier]

It's very refreshing that we haven't had to bear the usual "chair force" jokes.

All who serve are putting their only life on the line for us

[lulu16]

I posted on FR that they went to Christian Freedom School and used to play war games as kids. The black kid’s father is a Baptist preacher. No emphasis on the mixed races this either.

It’s always about values not race that make us similar or dissimilar.

My husband said that he heard a French official tell the French when confronted with jihadist to “Act like the Americans.”

Here’s a t-shirt I found that celebrates Spencer Stone:

https://www.sunfrog.com/Political/Airman-First-Class-Spencer-Stone-American-hero-RoyalBlue-Guys.html

[Leaning Right]

President Reagan would have met him at the airport.

A President Palin would have too, come to think of it.

[vette6387]

“President Reagan would have met him at the airport.”

Golf and Black Issues are all that drive Obola. Oh, and I forgot lavish vacations on our dime!

[Mears]

Three brave guys,like the guys that grew up with me.

Now I look at pajama boy,gay men marrying,and the wuss in the White House.

I’m a woman who loved it when men were men.

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[I want the USA back]

And the American president will meet him and greet him and give him a medal of honor. < /s living in a dream world?>

[cymbeline]

Those guys are heroes if there were ever heroes, but isn’t the media coverage excessive?

[Hulka]

Maybe no so much excessive, but misdirected—deliberately ignoring the Christian aspect.

[CyberAnt]

SAME BIAS ..!!!

Exactly correct .. that’s why THEY ASSUME WE ARE ALSO BIASED .. LIKE THEM .. GET IT ..????????????

Typical liberals.

[cymbeline]

“deliberately ignoring the Christian aspect.”

Hadn’t thought of that.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Key paragraph is the final paragraph.

the three friends met as students at Fair Oaks Freedom Christian School, a faith-based K-12, where the school marquee now reads "Make a friend who makes a difference."

The three Americans were classmates, we knew, but I had read nothing about them meeting at a Christian School.

Agreed.

Seems like the media just edited that part out of their stories. Amazing that the media doesn't need to conspire, its automatic,they just all have the same prejudices.

You expected to read that they, presumably, consider themselves brothers in Christ.

I’m sure that was the first possibility that occurred to reporters when they learned that heroes were classmates and friends. </sarcasm>