Not All Heroes Wear Uniforms

Lorraine Allard of St. Olaves in the UK is a HERO! She sacrificed her life to that of another. She wasn’t wearing a set of cammies with a bullet proof vest and helmet. She wasn’t wearing a doctor or nurse or paramedic uniform either. She wasn't a police officer or firefighter.

Lorraine Allard was a MOM and a wife. Her uniform in her last days was either her regular clothes or a hospital gown or something appropriate for her circumstances.

Lorraine Allard is as much a hero as any one else that made the ultimate sacrifice so that someone else could live.

Lorraine Allard gave her life so that her son could be born.

When she was four months pregnant she discovered that she was in the advanced stages of liver cancer. This gave her two choices: either forego cancer treatment and certainly die or terminate the pregnancy.

She chose to forego the cancer treatment that may or may not have saved her life so that her unborn child would be able to live. She then waited until her baby was old enough to be viable before scheduling her Caesarean section.

That was a selfless, courageous act!

I would like to think I would make a decision like that if I was ever faced with circumstances that required it. I hope I never have to find out. My wife and I have discussed this many times during the pregnancies that gave us our beautiful children.

Abortion was not an option for us. And that was not a decision that we came to lightly, but we arrived there very quickly. I thank God we never had to make that choice.

But Lorraine Allard, 33, did have to make the choice. And she chose to sacrifice her own life to let her fourth child, a son - their first - she and her husband named Liam, live. Liam was born on November 18th, 2007 and was a week premature.

Exactly two months later, Lorraine Allard died. She had begun chemotherapy but by then it was too late. The cancer was too advanced.

Lorraine Allard is a HERO! I only hope that if I ever have to, I can be as courageous as she was. I hope I never have to be.

And I am going to start a section on my blog to acknowledge Lorraine and other heroes out there. In keeping with the theme of the blog, Dirty Martini, I will call it the 5 Olives Award!

May God Bless Lorraine Allard and her family. She is a TRUE HERO.

A-6Dude

Westboro Wackos

The wackos at the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS are at it again. These are the people that have been showing up and protesting at the funerals of our fallen servicemen and servicewomen for the last few years. They blame the deaths of those heroes on the fact that this country is tolerant those that have chosen a homosexual lifestyle.

The irony of this is that they are disrespecting the honor and memory of the very same people that have sacrificed their lives defending these nut-jobs’ right to free speech.

Yes, they have a right to peacefully protest. But just because one has the right to do something doesn’t mean it necessarily needs to be done. And whoever is advising them on when and where to get their message out is giving them bad advice.

Yes, they have a right to voice their opinions. But they do nothing to advance their cause by protesting at the funerals and memorial services of our fallen heroes.

They’re going for a sensational impact since just sending out a press release stating their opinions isn’t enough. They must get out there and show that they have no respect for the lives of those that paid the ultimate sacrifice for their rights. And, their idiotic protesting shows no respect or compassion for the families, friends and loved ones of those that have fallen.

Not content to just go after the soldiers that have sacrificed their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, now they have targeted Heath Ledger because he played a cowboy that had chosen a homosexual lifestyle in the movie “Brokeback Mountain”. I never saw the movie and have no intention of doing so. As I said in a previous post, Hollywood “has taken up the liberal agenda of dumbing down society in order to make moral relativism the status quo.”

So why aren’t they out in Hollywood everyday protesting in front of each of the studios that make the movies that are offensive to them?

The answer is simple -- they are cowards.

At a funeral there will be only a relatively small number of people with which to contend. And, the people in attendance WILL be showing respect for the fallen and their families.

In Hollywood, they would be massively outnumbered. And those bastions of tolerance and diversity would not likely show the same traits to these wackos.

As I said, they have every right to do what they do. But they show no semblance of compassion or class. They are also judgmental. According to them, Heath Ledger and all of those dead soldiers are in hell right now.

And here is where they lose. Christians are supposed to be compassionate. I believe that the vast majority of them are. A normal person would not protest at someone’s funeral. These people are way radical. To me, the only thing they have over the radical Islamic terrorists that they don’t blow themselves up at funerals and kill many other innocent victims is that they don’t kill anyone.

I see absolutely NO compassion in their actions. All I see is hate.

And, who gives them the authority to know or determine where a person will spend eternity? I thought that was reserved for God!

These wackos are filled with hate. Luckily, for us, God is filled with Love.

Yes. God hates sin. But thankfully, He loves us sinners.

And, if they really despise living in a society where there are people that have chosen a homosexual lifestyle, then perhaps they should move to Iran. According to "Achmegenocide", Iran has no homosexuals.

There’ll be no martini recipe for these wackos.

A-6Dude