Posted on 11/21/2022 6:53:10 PM PST by Round Earther
COLORADO SPRINGS — Richard M. Fierro was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub and instincts forged during four combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself, protect your people.
In an interview at his house on Monday, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Mr. Fierro, 45, who spent 15 years as an Army officer and left as a major in 2013, according to military records, described charging through the chaos at the club, tackling the gunman and beating him bloody with the gunman’s own gun.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sad statement about where we are at in this country.
When people are in prison and don’t have much else, they start playing with their own poop. You can’t take that away from them easily.
When you’re a boy and all you have left to express yourself, to see something unique in yourself, and get attention is to put on a wig, makeup, pumps and a dress...
As to PTSD, 95% BS.
Mr. Fierro is a true hero. So sad to hear his daughter’s boyfriend was killed.
Thank you for sharing that article here.
Thanks Alb, that was a wonderful article and very informative. Thank god there are still a few angels walking the earth.
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But I want to thank you for trying to help me!
God bless this Army veteran... he is a true hero. Very sad that his (adult) daughter's boyfriend was killed by the shooter.
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