“She put herself between the gunman and her students”

We need to hear more light in the darkness stories.

Here's a bright one:

She took a bullet for her kids.

Teacher Victoria Soto used her body to shield her students from the maniacal gunman who launched a massacre at a Connecticut school, relatives said Saturday.

Soto paid for her bravery with her life. But in doing so, the 27-year-old may have saved her first-graders from the murderous wrath of Adam Lanza — and became a hero.

“The family received information she was found shielding her students in a closet,” Soto’s cousin Jim Wiltsie told the Daily News. “She put herself between the gunman and her students.”

Wiltsie said police told the family of Soto’s bravery at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“I’m very proud to report she was a hero,” said Wiltsie, who is a police officer in Fairfield, Conn. “I would expect nothing less from Vicki. Instinctively her training kicked in. She did what she was trained to do, but also what her heart told her to do.”

I'm of the firm belief that our hearts today are telling us to do something in the wake of this senselessness.

Hearts open to the sacred heart of Christ.

Listen carefully.

Comments

[Sara]

so proud of her :'(

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Thanks for sharing this, Rick.

What an incredible young lady, personifying the word “hero” in the face of horrific madness.

Learning about the people beyond the statistics is extremely important and what we should truly be focusing on. Rather than the rampant ridiculousness of idiotic amateur psychologists and inappropriate and despicable tunnel vision agenda pushers.

[Jamal Imoz]

Don't want to rain on the parade, but who witnessed this. How was she 'found shielding' What does that look like. Why would the shooter stop after the 'shielding'. I remember the 'Rambo Jessica Lynch' fairytale concocted by the feminists in the pentagon, when a convoy was ambushed at the start of the 2003 Iraq invasion. All the men joined the fight. All the females...didn't. Is that what this story is?

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

I’m thinking she was shot and killed in front of the closet her kids were in. As the story describes. Or the CT police are lying to perpetuate a story as I’m sure there are prone to do.

The six staff members killed were all women. Not sure what to make of that other than maybe this school was mainly staffed by women. Or the CT police, along with the school, the families and the community, have undertaken a massive conspiracy about who actually died. Happens all the time.

“The 'Rambo Jessica Lynch' fairytale” was concocted by the media.

Just sad and pathetic.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain

[Zoe]

That could very well be a possibility now couldn't it, tim?

But regardless, it shows how people do yearn for such heroism.

Heroism of this type (regardless of its verified authenticity in this story) has been seen before and will be seen again, unfortunately, in horrific situations such as this.