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On another thread, I mentioned how, in the last few years of his life, I came to know and develop something of a friendship with Hugh Thompson. Hugh is remembered by few people. In 1968, when Hugh was three years younger than McQueary was when he witnessed Sandusky raping a youngster and ran away, Hugh found himself as a helicopter pilot over a little Vietnamese village called My Lai. Hugh witnessed the ongoing atrocities, and at the risk of his reputation, career, and indeed, his life, stepped in and intervened.

When Hugh later testified in front of a closed session of congress, he himself was threatened with court martial and later received any number of threats. He never wavered, and was only recognized for having done the right thing decades later.

While he died in 2006 in some relative degree of obscurity, he had exhibited more courage, honor and heroism before his 26th birthday than McQueery, Paterno, Curley or any of the other so-called adults in this sordid mess could ever hope to know.

I was once told that the difference between a coward and a hero is the direction they run. McQueery, Paterno, Curley, Spanier and all the other so-called adults in this sorded mess have shown the world what they are, and deserve everything they have coming.