hero of the week
Yesterday evening, NPR's All Things considered ran a superb profile of two of the US Marshals who enforced the desegregation orders that followed in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v Board of Education decision 50 years ago. The segment stirred my admiration for these two sons of the South who upheld true Southern -- indeed, American -- values of law, honor, courage and family. I was especially moved when one of the two said they considered the young black girls in their charge as one of their own daughters, and stated matter-of-factly that he would have laid down his life before seeing her come to harm.
Their honor, courage and discipline in the face of stark provocation -- and imminent danger, including radom gunfire during the siege at Ole Miss -- stands in stark contrast to the execrable conduct of guards and interrogators at Iraq's Abu Greib prison.
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