Selfless Sacrifice
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jan 07 2008 at 5:30 pm | Filed under: Heroes, Iraq, Military
Two Iraqi soldiers took down a suicide bomber at the cost of their own lives.
A spate of bombings, including a suicide attack on Iraqi soldiers attending an Army Day ceremony, rocked Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 32, Iraqi officials said.
The suicide attack on the soldiers took place in Karrada neighbourhood as gifts were being handed out to troops by a civilian organisation on Army Day, an official holiday marking the 87th anniversary of the founding of the army.
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US military spokesman Lieutenant Steven Stover said that according to eyewitnesses two Iraqi soldiers were killed when they flung themselves onto the attacker as he detonated his explosives.“They absorbed some of the blast. They saved a lot of lives,” Stover told AFP.
“The selfless sacrifice of the two Iraqi (soldiers) should not be forgotten,” he said in a later statement. “These two Iraqi martyrs gave their lives so that others might live.”
I hope their sacrifice is remembered appropriately and with high honors. Not sure how…I just wouldn’t want it to be ignored altogether. That would send a pretty crappy message.
This entire situation occasionally privileges us to see the very worst humanity has to offer — at which time, I note, there is no shortage of politically agitated factions, here stateside, invested in making sure everyone knows about it. Well, equally often if not moreso, it also shows us the very best of human behavior as well. So guess what?
What say you New York Times. How about run this on the front page for an entire month in a row.
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