Wil's Rant

She was only trying to teach villagers about the problems of child marriages. Reportedly, some of those villagers took offence to her efforts. At least one of them cut off one of her hands. It is clear that this worlds path to enlightenment has been and will continue to be a slow and in many cases a deadly one. Probably the one thing more than any others that continues to surprise me. That would be the number of quiet heroes there are, who go out into this ignorant world, often at unbelievable personal risk, in an attempt to help people who in many cases they have never even met. Nuns come to mind right away. They go into often war torn or devastatingly poor areas for no other reason than to serve. They all too often end up raped, or dead, or both. Yet they continue. I hear all too often as how the world doesn't have any heroes left in it. This can be seen as the reason for the whole George Bush illness that has overtaken the U.S. They were looking for a hero in this new dangerous world. He was the most apparently confidence inspiring if for no other reason than his obvious willingness to go in and stomp anyone or anyplace that he felt might be a threat or an economic interest of the U.S. Fact is you won't find too many heroes at the Whitehouse these days. We have the current situation instead. If you want to find any heroes they are really all around us, at the Salvation Army, at your local church, at the fire department, the police department, in Emergency Rooms and Surgical Rooms, you'll find a whack of them at Canadian Military Bases. The point is that they are all around us everyday. It's just that most of us in North America are lucky enough not to ever have to become acutely aware of just how many ordinary people become heroes at times of need The everyday heroes are so far away and out of sight that we never have to face the ugly realities that they face every morning. Here's to hoping that one day they won't have too.