The Iowa high school principal who was shot and wounded while trying to protect his students during a school shooting earlier this month has died from his injuries, according to the school district.
Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger was among seven people injured in the Jan. 4 shooting. One student, 11-year-old sixth grader Ahmir Jolliff, was killed, authorities said.
The suspected shooter – a student at the high school – died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
Real heroes never look like what you expect.
I think there was a whole fucking trilogy of movies based on a trilogy of books based on the authors experiences in World War I about how heroes are who you wouldn’t expect.
WWI. Our boy was busy writing while Europe was on fire during WWII. Like the Hobbit, he wrote the book (at least partially) for his son:
As a dad, I fuckin feel that.
Yeah, he and CS Lewis (Inklings) both wrote about WWII as it was happening, but their actual service was in WWI when they were much younger. I found it interesting that C.S. Lewis, as an Irishman, was not required to fight, but he literally volunteered.
Thanks for the catch on the wrong war.
If I recall correctly, Kurt Vonnegut attributed his writings about war to wanting to teach his children that it was the worst thing in the world.
You got me choked up a bit with this post because it was spot -on.
I could totally see samwise and Frodo in Valinor doing the Grumpy Old Men thing
“you had the ring for like a day. Who carried it all the way up the mountain?”
“And who do you think carried your fat ass? Besides? It was Gollum as dropped it in the lava…”