Recently there was a lot of media coverage about Carmesha Rogers, who is a true hero. When she heard gun shots, dozens of them, in front of her house, did she stay inside where she would be safe? No. She ran into the line of fire to get some neighborhood kids inside. She rescued these children, she says, because she’d like to think that others would do the same thing if her children were in danger. She got those kids to safety, but for her troubles she was shot in the head.
For a while there in the hospital they thought she’d be a vegetable, or that she’d never walk or talk again. But now she’s back home, working, taking care of her family like she always has done. She’s an amazing woman who did an amazing thing. I’m not sure I’d have had the courage to do what she did. I doubt one person in a hundred would have. End of story.
That’s what I don’t get. WHY is it the end of the story? Why isn’t she getting the key to the city, or presidential awards, or free cars? Why isn’t she being given college tuition along with living expenses while she attends school? Where are the marching bands, the streets named after her, the free food for life?
People think Carmesha Rogers is a hero, but they don’t seem to appreciate what a rare and special person she is, or at least not enough to get off their self-indulgent behinds long enough to reward her for her sacrifice.
This just makes me sad.
Carmesha Rogers
The View from a Drawbridge 
And yet they give away billions of dollars of stuff to people on TV game shows every day.
Exactly!
How about a game show where they give stuff away to homeless people?
Why not? All you have to do is show up on Oprah and you get a freakin’ car these days.
what up wit dat?
Public relations. When the 2 percent give away cars, they can look all generous, but it is barely a blip on their financial radar.
It was more of a rhetorical question…