{"id":10651,"date":"2015-08-22T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2015-08-22T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T17:07:20","slug":"these-young-men-are-real-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"These young men are real heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/france-terror.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10652\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/france-terror-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"france-terror\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/france-terror-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/france-terror.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heroes don&#8217;t come along very often.<\/p>\n<p>Three young Americans, though, have become France&#8217;s national heroes for an amazing act of courage they performed while thwarting a would-be terrorist attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone? Take a bow, fellas. You&#8217;ve earned a\u00a0huge\u00a0helping of high praise.<\/p>\n<p>Sadler was traveling with his pals, both members of the U.S. military, when they noticed a man with an assault rifle. They tackled him, fought with him, wrestled the gun away from him. The bad guy was heard yelling &#8220;Give me back my gun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skarlatos, a member of the Oregon National Guard, had recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1440262417654_1075\">The gunman was identified as a 26-year-old Moroccan man.<\/p>\n<p>French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the group\u00a0demonstrated &#8220;great bravery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1440262417654_1076\">&#8220;Without their cool-headed actions we could have been faced with a terrible incident,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think?<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;hero&#8221; gets tossed around way too generously. It surely describes the actions of three brave young men traveling through France.<\/p>\n<p>Sadler said this: &#8220;I&#8217;m just a college student. I came to see my friends for my first trip to Europe and we stop a terrorist. It&#8217;s kind of crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also kind of heroic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes don&#8217;t come along very often. Three young Americans, though, have become France&#8217;s national heroes for an amazing act of courage they performed while thwarting a would-be terrorist attacker. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone? Take a bow, fellas. You&#8217;ve earned a\u00a0huge\u00a0helping of high praise. 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