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Daniel Penny, Subway Hero, Good Samaritan, and Former Marine: Semper Fi!
We all have blind spots about things we either like or dislike to an irrational level. One of mine is my exuberant, near-fanatical love of the Blue Angels, only partially sated by my newfound ability to go to their practice sessions every week and see the show over and over again!
But I have another lifetime blind spot and it involves my love of the United States Marine Corps— The Proud, The Few, The Marines! At the risk of offending the delicate little sensitivities of the woke snowflake liberals who hate men – especially the toxic variety, whatever that means – I have always regarded the Marines as the last real men in American society. Semper Fi!
Why go through this litany of my biases and prejudices in favor of two of the finest, most respected units of our military services? The reason is that in thinking about, and writing about, the very fine young ex-Marine who probably saved lives in that subway car in New York City, it is well nigh impossible for me to even pretend to be objective. After reviewing a large number of “news” accounts—apologies for the quotes but it is a recognition of the depths to which the journalism “profession” has fallen— of what we know of the incident thus far and initially planning to write a piece synthesizing all the accounts, I decided to take an approach one only finds rarely in the mainstream media. I will try to do something here quite radical for our times, maybe unthinkable: I view this from the standpoint of the former Marine who honorably served his country, Daniel Penny, and the lives he very probably saved on May 1 in that subway car.
Semper Fi!