Kimberly Munley, Hero of the Fort Hood Massacre

Kimberly Munley, a civilian police Sergeant assigned to Fort Hood, was the first on the scene along with her partner of what is now called the Fort Hood Massacre. Moments before Kimberly Munley had been directing traffic.

Kimberly Munley rushed into the building where Malik Nadal Hasan was busily shooting everyone in sight. With moments she confronted the mass murderer as he rounded a corner. She fired at him from a distance of a few feet, taking him down, while taking a bullet herself. Kimberly Munley is in the hospital in stable condition and is expected to live. In fact, Thursday night she was awake and phoning fellow officers inquiring about the other casualties.

There is little publicly known about Kimberly Munley yet, other than the fact that she is a hero who likely saved many lives by her quick and heroic actions. Her twitter page, not well used, but now heavily followed, provides some clues. Kimberly Munley is a self described "paranoid OCD" mom hoping that the Swine flu stays far away from "Jayden", obviously her child.

Her bio reads, "I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."

One would say in quite a few lives Thursday Afternoon, November 5^th, 2009.

It is a fact about monstrous events like the Fort Hood Massacre that while they reveal the worse in human beings, such as the accused gun man Malik Nadal Hasan, they are also the maker of heroes. No one can forget on 9/11 the fire fighters and police officers who charged into the World Trade Center to rescue as many people as they could, even though many of these first responders would not leave the place alive. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are terrible, as all wars are, but the best of our youth are made heroes in those places, fighting not just so that the folks back home can be safe, but so that strangers, who speak a foreign tongue and live under a strange culture, can be free.

Kimberly Munley is a hero, no question. As long as there are people like her, the country called America and the race called human, will survive and prosper.

Sources:

Kimberly Munley praised for ending Fort Hood rampage, Helen Pidd, the Guardian, November 6th, 2009

Kimberly Munley, Twitter Page