http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hero/ en-us Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:55:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415298/posts A Dutch airline passenger told The Post how he leapt into action when an alleged Muslim terrorist tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner packed with 300 people just moments before landing. Chaos erupted as alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, tried to set off a sophisticated explosive device strapped to his body. "Suddenly, we hear a bang. It sounded like a firecracker went off," said Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to visit friends. "When [it] went off, everybody panicked ... Then someone screamed, ‘Fire! Fire!’" New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415298/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:55:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415397/posts "I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused," Matthews said on his "Hardball" show, speaking to guest Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, on the topic of President Obama's health care plan. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415397/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415272/posts An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke - sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al Qaeda to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said. -snip- Mutallab has been in the U.S. before, having received a visa in June 2008. His listed residence was in Houston, Texas. Authorities had placed him on a preliminary watch list, meaning they wanted to gather more information about him, but law enforcement subsequently lost track of him. CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415272/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:34:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415198/posts Abdul Mutallab, a 23 year old Nigerian claiming he was acting on al Qaida's instructions set off an explosive device on Christmas day on a plane traveling between Nigeria and Detroit. That attempt to murder over 270 people on Delta's Flight 253 was thwarted when one passenger jumped over others to subdue the man. Shortly afterward, the suspect was taken to a front row seat with his pants cut off and his legs burned. continued TalkingSides.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415198/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:10:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415314/posts Here is video of a passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 telling about the heroic effort of another passenger to stop a terrorist on board to keep him from completing his attempt to blow up the airplane. A young man climbed over passengers to get to the Nigerian terrorist to stop him. Reports indicate the terrorist was burned badly on his legs, where he had strapped the explosive device. The heroic passenger was also burned in subduing the attacker: An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke - sending passengers... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415314/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415299/posts Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam, told CNN how helped the cabin crew to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old who reportedly ignited a small explosive device on on board the plane Friday as it prepared to land in Detroit. Schuringa said he heard a sound that reminded him of a firecracker and someone yelling, “Fire! Fire!” "I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away," Schuringa said. He said he screamed for water and pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat and dragged him to the front... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415299/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:56:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414464/posts By Nancy Colasurdo FOXBusiness On the morning of September 11, 2001, Fran Kosowski heard these words over the telephone from her NYPD husband -- “I’m OK, we’re going in.” A short time later, walking in the door after picking up their children from school, she saw one of the World Trade Center buildings collapse. Trying to keep it together, she gave an instinctive answer when the kids asked, “Where’s Daddy?” “Probably helping people,” she said. Meanwhile, in the chaos that was Lower Manhattan, Detective Sergeant Mike Kosowski – a first responder who was trying to clear the area -- came... Fox business http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414464/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408169/posts A Marine stationed at Cherry Point air station restrained a man who had allegedly assaulted a Walmart greeter on Monday until New Bern police could arrive at the scene. Nathan Josial was in the store located at 3105 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. with his wife and four children to buy pajamas for his daughter to wear at her school’s pajama day, said his wife, New Bern resident Melissa Wysong. Wysong said they were greeted by the door greeter, John McLean, 83, who had given stickers fto the children and wished them a merry Christmas. Wysong said they heard... http://www.enctoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408169/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:38:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404919/posts A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest. "It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful," Guillaume Morand, who owns a chain of shoe stores, told AFP. The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland's city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to "send a message of peace." More... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404919/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:28:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402392/posts Roger Day paraded alongside 600 genuine war heroes wearing a beige SAS beret and a dazzling selection of 21 military medals and badges. Thousands of well-wishers - including the recently bereaved families of servicemen killed in Afghanistan - clapped and cheered as he marched past. Related Articles * Afghanistan: 300 US soldiers killed this year But organisers became suspicious when they noticed he had medals from campaigns including World War One and Two, Korea, the Falklands, awards for both officers and privates and even a foreign medal. He was confronted by a friend of one of the organisers at the... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402392/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:00:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401336/posts CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Military officials say a decorated Marine from Minnesota has been killed in a parachute training exercise at Camp Pendleton. A Marine Corps statement says Corporal Ryan L. Pape died Thursday night from injuries sustained during a low-level static line jump. StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401336/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:54:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399975/posts UPDATE,...Earlier today, I contacted Tedd Petruna, the brave passenger on AirTran Flight 297, who–with another Texan–saved the day from apparent Islamic terrorists, leaving him a voicemail message asking for confirmation of the e-mail and events below. Mr. Petruna called me back, tonight, and confirmed that he did write the e-mail below and that it’s all true. WAKE. UP. AMERICA. We are under siege. I begin with the caveat that I don’t know whether or not this is true. However, it certainly sounds like it is, and the guy-Tedd J. Petruna of NASA–has his e-mail address and home and work phone... Debbie Schlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399975/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 06:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398884/posts <p>A 90-year-old Army veteran who won the Medal of Honor during World War II is battling his neighborhood association for what he says is his right to fly the American flag from a pole in his front yard.</p> <p>Col. Van T. Barfoot says he erected the 21-foot flagpole in September, raising the flag daily at sunrise and retiring it at sunset.</p> AP via Pilot Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398884/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:00:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394737/posts A retired Minneapolis police sergeant leaped onto a burning boat in a Florida harbor north of Fort Myers, picked up and moved one badly injured woman, and then another, onto other boats, then got off the distressed vessel seconds before it was rocked by the second of two explosions. Just as Harry Baltzer finished moving the two women from the blazing boat last Friday in an Englewood, Fla., gated community, he could sense that time was running short. "I put one foot on one bow, and I had my other foot on the other bow," said Baltzer, who turns 68... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394737/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392962/posts Ryan Nettleton was serving his second tour in Iraq when he learned his police officer brother Trevor had been shot and killed Thursday in Las Vegas. Without sleeping or showering, the 26-year-old specialist from Tacoma flew to Kuwait, then Washington, D.C., then Washington state. Upon landing Saturday, he headed straight to Fort Lewis to pick up his dress blues so he could honor the older brother who inspired him to join the military. Ryan Nettleton will wear his formal uniform Wednesday at a Mass for Trevor in Las Vegas. Family members rallied to raise money for him to fly to... The News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392962/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391550/posts Lcpl Shawn P. Hefner, USMCDec 04, 1986 -Nov 13, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWHcObPpDc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391550/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391195/posts Her’s is a GREAT Life Story. She has a FABULOUS Life Story. Her Life Story is an INCREDIBLE American Adventure. She has an AMAZING Life Story. These are just a few of the Great Life Story accolades that were accorded to Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor while she was being vetted to join the Supreme Court. At one point, I felt that the next time I heard about here GREAT LIFE STORY I would up-chuck. The fact that she is a racist by her own statement; that a Female Latina Women would make a better judgment than a White Anglo... Galganov.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391195/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:18:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389689/posts Close inspection of the image "properties" of photos of Obama included in the whitehouse.gov website reveal the word "hero" in their file path names. "Right click" the above photo, scroll to properties, drag the popup window corner right and view the file path names.. The word "hero" is fundamental to the file path. (example of filename path: www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/imagecache/home_hero_rotator_main/hero_feature/hero_image/hero_greatwall_LJ-0160.jpg) Is this a bad case of EGO, or is the word "hero" some sort of file structure term I'm not aware of? Could it be possible Obama is the whitehouse.gov's webmaster? LOL www.whitehouse.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389689/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:29:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386552/posts On Dec. 4, 2009, the radical Hollywood left is poised to release its latest tribute to the men and women of the armed services, entitled "Brothers." The film stars Tobey Maguire as a military man serving in Afghanistan. When he is presumed killed in action, his wife, played by Natalie Portman, has an affair with his brother, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Naturally, Maguire shows up at home with a tremendous case of post-traumatic disorder -- which, if we are to judge from the trailer, causes him to fire weapons at random and physically abuse his wife. "Brothers" follows hot on... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386552/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:56:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383931/posts The civilian police officer credited with confronting and disabling the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army Post said Wednesday she is "doing well." In an interview, Oprah Winfrey spoke with Sgt. Kimberly Munley and another first responder, Sgt. Mark Todd, by teleconference from Killeen. Munley suffered three gunshot wounds -- in both thighs and a knuckle. She remains at Metroplex Adventist Hospital in good condition, authorities said. Munley, who officials said has been trained in active-response tactics, wounded the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, several times in her effort to stop him, officials said. Hasan... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383931/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383374/posts 11/10/2009 - SHREVEPORT, La. (AFNS) -- An Air Force recruiter stopped a robbery in progress while attending his unit's annual training conference Oct. 29 here. Staff Sgt. Cesar Munoz, a recruiter with the 344th Recruiting Squadron stationed in Killeen, Texas, subdued two assailants attempting to mug an elderly man at the Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Shreveport. Sergeant Munoz and his wife, April, had just left the squadron's annual promotion party at the hotel and were heading to the casino. The party had featured a Halloween theme, so Sergeant Munoz entered dressed as Elvis, complete with white sequined jumper,... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383374/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:56:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382639/posts Metroplex Hospital in Killeen has sent out the following statement on behalf of Kimberly Munley and her family. "Kimberly Munley and family would like to extend their thanks and appreciation for all of the thoughts and concerns surrounding Kim from around the nation. They are deeply touched by the outpouring of strength, thoughts and prayers that have been sent their way. At this time, the main concern for Kim's family is her safe and rapid recovery. The family would also like to extend their heartfelt condolences to all those affected by the tragedy on Fort Hood. Mrs. Munley is very... Killeen Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382639/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382064/posts "Hoping to bring an end to the chaos inside the post deployment readiness center, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, an officer with Fort Hood’s Department of Emergency Services, and Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, K-9 Division, DES, moved in to the fight. According to Todd, as soon as officers pulled up to the scene, people were pointing them in the direction of the shooter. Hasan reportedly started firing on Todd and Munley, who took cover behind a vehicle. Munley left her cover to pursue the shooter and Todd followed around the other side of the building, where the major was hiding. When Todd... defenselink.mil http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382064/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:43:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380831/posts With Monday marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan's son Michael tells Newsmax that his father was deeply troubled by the wall from the night it was first erected. Michael Reagan also said President Barack Obama's decision not to attend the anniversary ceremonies in Berlin is "sad," but "completely consistent" with Obama. On June 12, 1987, President Reagan delivered a rousing speech near the Berlin Wall in which he challenged the leader of the Soviet Union: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Less than 2 1/2 years later, on Nov. 9, 1989, the wall... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380831/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380685/posts Pfc. Marquest Smith, a former Fort Worth resident who joined the Army just over a year ago, was in a small cubicle inside the Soldier Readiness Center when he heard popping sounds. A bullet tore through the cubicle wall and lodged in the heel of his boot. Within 15 minutes, the 21-year-old soldier was rushing through the chaos in the huge processing center to pull four wounded victims to safety and help take them to the hospital. The gunman fired toward him from across the room as Smith was fleeing the building. Other tales of heroism spread throughout this grief-stricken... Fort Worth Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380685/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:10:36 GMT