海角大神

It takes courage to confront injustice. Last Friday night, three men made a choice to intervene during a hateful anti-Muslim rant against two teenage girls on a train in Portland, Ore. Two of those three men died, stabbed by an avowed white supremacist.

At the Monitor, we鈥檙e well aware that the tragic event is a few days old now. But we thought we should pause and recognize heroism when it happens.

Ricky John Best, an Army veteran and married father of four, was a hero for what he did as a civilian Friday.

Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, who had just begun his first job out of college, exemplified courage Friday. He acted on his highest principles.

And Micah David-Cole Fletcher, who describes himself as an aspiring poet, put the safety of others before his own. 聽

The perpetrator of the crime should be, and likely will be, forgotten. But these three heroes won鈥檛.