I don’t want to sound all saccharine, all syrupy. But… caring about people and caring about principles – I’ve been thinking – is what strong, heroic people tend to do.
Did you hear about the hospital medical people, for example, who stayed behind to care for 19 babies in the NICU (the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit), as Hurricane Laura pounded their community?
There was that, in the news, in recent days. And there was this about other people… the current Secretary of Education, for example, who a second federal judge slammed “for trying to divert coronavirus relief funds from poor students to richer ones,” according to an article in Forbes.
There was the ABC News story about the current US Attorney General removing a “career national security officer,” weeks before the election, raising concerns.
There was the article in the environmental news site, EcoWatch, about the current US president’s administration proposing what was described as a “vicious plan for fossil fuel lease sales in California amid historic wildfires.”
Yeah… the people, at the hospital, kept the babies safe through the Category 4 storm, according to CNN. They “hunkered down in the NICU all night… Some of the babies were on respirators and ventilators, some as small as one or two pounds.”
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.