April 10, 2018: Del Rio News-Herald * From Page 1A * Letter to the Editor * A tale of two officers
Letter
to the Editor,
A
Tale of Two Officers
Once
upon a time there lived a Courageous Officer named Arnaud Beltrame and a
Cowardly Officer named Scot Peterson.
It
so happened that the Courageous Officer lived in southern France and the
Cowardly Officer lived in the southern United States.
It
is sad to say that the home of the brave was not in the United States but
rather it was in France.
One
day, as fate would have it, it was Ash Wednesday and Saint Valentine’s Day,
while the Cowardly Officer was patrolling outside a school in the City of Parkland
in the State of Florida shots rang out and he froze in fear and made a decisive
cowardly act to hide behind the walls in safety and security and allow the
students he was supposed to protect with his life instead be shot to death.
He
was the Cowardly Officer who chose that day to save himself; instead of possibly
saving some of those 17 victims from death by the active shooter inside the school.
On
another day, as fate would have it, it was the Eve of Palm Sunday, the
Courageous Officer was called to a jihadist terror attack where a hostage
situation ensued inside a supermarket in the City of Trèbes in the District of
Carcassonne and he made a decisive heroic sacrifice in the heat of a violent
conflict to offer to take the place of a woman held hostage by the jihadi and
he was stabbed and shot to death. He made the ultimate sacrifice and gave his
life so that another person could live.
He
was the Courageous Officer who chose that day to save a stranger held hostage
in a jihadist terror attack instead of saving himself from certain death at the
hands of those sworn to kill all infidels.
The
President of the United States said this about Scot Peterson: "He didn’t act properly
under pressure, a coward.”
The
President of France said this about Arnaud Beltrame: “He fell as a hero. He
showed exceptional courage.”
Marian
Casillas, Ed.D.
Letter
to the Editor,
A
Tale of Two Officers
Once
upon a time there lived a Courageous Officer named Arnaud Beltrame and a
Cowardly Officer named Scot Peterson.
It
so happened that the Courageous Officer lived in southern France and the
Cowardly Officer lived in the southern United States.
It
is sad to say that the home of the brave was not in the United States but
rather it was in France.
One
day, as fate would have it, it was Ash Wednesday and Saint Valentine’s Day,
while the Cowardly Officer was patrolling outside a school in the City of Parkland
in the State of Florida shots rang out and he froze in fear and made a decisive
cowardly act to hide behind the walls in safety and security and allow the
students he was supposed to protect with his life instead be shot to death.
He
was the Cowardly Officer who chose that day to save himself; instead of possibly
saving some of those 17 victims from death by the active shooter inside the school.
On
another day, as fate would have it, it was the Eve of Palm Sunday, the
Courageous Officer was called to a jihadist terror attack where a hostage
situation ensued inside a supermarket in the City of Trèbes in the District of
Carcassonne and he made a decisive heroic sacrifice in the heat of a violent
conflict to offer to take the place of a woman held hostage by the jihadi and
he was stabbed and shot to death. He made the ultimate sacrifice and gave his
life so that another person could live.
He
was the Courageous Officer who chose that day to save a stranger held hostage
in a jihadist terror attack instead of saving himself from certain death at the
hands of those sworn to kill all infidels.
The
President of the United States said this about Scot Peterson: "He didn’t act properly
under pressure, a coward.”
The
President of France said this about Arnaud Beltrame: “He fell as a hero. He
showed exceptional courage.”
Marian
Casillas, Ed.D.
Del
Rio, Texas