真正的英雄

今天在網上看到了以下這則新聞

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Marine throws himself on exploding grenade  A ROYAL Marine has told how he threw himself in front of an exploding grenade to save his colleagues and escaped with just a nose bleed. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher has been recommended for a Victoria Cross,Britain's The Times newspaper reports. He and three other soldiers were on patrol in southern Afghanistan when Lance Corporal Croucher hit a tripwire attached to the grenade. The soldier told The Times “I thought, I’ve set this bloody thing off and I’m going to do whatever it takes to protect the others. I’m very tight with the three other guys. There have been a few times when they have saved my bacon. “I knew a grenade like this has a killing circumference of about five metres.So I got down with my back to the grenade and used my body as a shield. It was a case of either having four of us as fatalities or badly wounded, or one.”  While Lance Corporal Croucher  was thrown into the air, his backpack took the full force of the blast.He suffered a nose bleed and the rest of the patrol had minor cuts and bruises. “All I could hear was a loud ringing and the faint sound of people shouting, ‘Are you OK? Are you OK?’ Blood was streaming from my nose," the soldier said."It took 30 seconds before I realised I was definitely not dead.”  A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said it would be months before a decision was made on awarding the Victoria Cross. "But clearly this guy is very brave. And very, very lucky.”

事情是這樣    二十四歲的Matt Croucher 與他三名戰友今年初在阿富汗作戰時

在一塊毫無遮蔽物的空地被敵人丟了一顆手榴彈

大家都知道手榴彈拉開安全栓後    在極短的時間內就會爆炸

而且火力與飛散的碎片是主要殺傷力來源

就在千鈞一髮的時候    他奔向那顆手榴彈    扭曲著身體用盡全身的力量

以身上的背包押制住手榴彈的爆炸

他心裡想著    與其四個人一起重傷或死亡    不如讓他一個人來犧牲

成功的話    或許可以保住其他三名戰友的性命

手榴彈爆了    奇蹟似的    他身上的設備及防護衣服幫他阻檔了致命的碎片

而背包裡的電池以及醫療用品則被炸得支離破碎

他本人也被炸上高空    但是最後卻只有輕微的損傷與有點迷失方向

而其他三名戰友則都只受了點輕傷而已

而他則在7月23日被頒與英國最高榮譽之一的英勇勳章 Victoria Cross






在短短幾秒中能當機立斷做出這樣的決定    無疑的需要大智大仁大勇

由於他的善念    使自己與同袍終能得救

如果說真的有幸運這回事    那也是他向命運爭取來的   

今天換作是我    大概只會手足無措不然就是狂念阿彌佗佛

然後在自己的遲疑中被炸得灰飛煙滅    然後佛祖就來接我到西方極樂吧

所以這樣的新聞    除了欽佩感動 還看到人性光輝閃耀的一面

連帶也想到上回川震那位只顧著自己逃命的老師    雖然說一般人皆有父母兒女

會貪生怕死也是人之常情    實在不能也不忍去苛責

但是這樣的 Matt Croucher    卻能讓世人感受到人格的不同高度

英雄一辭    我想他的確是當之無愧!









雖然比起Matt    蝙蝠俠一整個遜掉    不過這爆米花可樂組合還真挺可愛

杯蓋上的蝙蝠在暗處會發光    在黑暗的戲院裡也能看得很清楚哩!