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By now the entire nation is well aware of the tragic shooting at Fort Hood. And although she’s gotten plenty of coverage, I feel it’s important to pay a little respect to Ms. Kimberly Munley, the female police officer who ended the shooting. Sargeant Munley ended the massacre by quickly responding to the emergency and eventually having to shoot Major Nidal Malik, but not before receiving a few blows herself. So Kimberly Munley is now a hero.
In fact, she’s not just a hero. This girl is amazing. Munley is a mother of a 3-year old daughter, a famed fantastic officer, a wife to Sergeant Mathew Munley, a friend to her neighborhood, and manages to uphold her title as one “tough woman” by her neighbors and peers. And now she’s adding hero to her list. Her brother-in-law responded to her new press attention with little surprise stating, “There’s nothing that stands in her way. It completely makes sense that she did what she did.”
It really impresses me that she can maintain success in so many different areas and positions of her life. It’d be difficult for anyone, male or female, to do as much as Munley does, and to do it well. At this point in the investigation, Munley is receiving a bit of skepticism from her fans as the press questions whether she did the shooting or not. Maybe she missed him, maybe she didn’t. Honestly I don’t care because I still think she is remarkable. To top it off her attitude remains modest and content:
Sergeant Munley insisted that she had fired at the gunman, but could not say whether she had hit him. Sergeant Todd described firing the shots which brought down Major Hasan – the first he had ever fired at a live target in a 25-year career – but could not say whether the gunman had already been hit. Despite the disparity, there appeared to be no tension between the two partners as to who should be given the credit for stopping the shooting spree: they were happy to share the praise
It’d be sad to hear that in the end she wasn’t the shooter, but either way she was there and playing a major part in ending the massacre. I love that the press portrays her s as someone who is fearless and quick to respond, undoubtedly destroying any clichéd version of a woman’s fear or lack of assertion. She’s a mother, wife, sergeant and hero who is modest, tough and kind? Yikes, that’s one hell of a woman!
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I agree,she is 5″2 and her nickname is Mighty Mouse. This is a tragedy that shouldn’t have happened,this goomba did every possible to let us know what he was up to. A prime example of political correctness gone amuck.
where is the ‘liar’ comment coming from??
I ask what the speaker is doing with his/her life that they can make a contemptuous statement such as that about a woman who
made difficult decisions and acted upon them in ‘the fog of battle’
I was wondering that too…
Yeah, if she didn’t hit him it would be, at worst, a mistake. Not a lie.
Yeah, I don’t know what I find more offensive: the liar implication or her being referred to as a “girl.”
Well, she was brave enough to do it and she did her best–that’s good enough for me.
“It’d be sad to hear that in the end she wasn’t the shooter”
I just find this so inappropriate. No one in such a position ever WANTS to be a shooter, and
I was going to say the same. That’s just sick.
“It’d be sad to hear that in the end she wasn’t the shooter”
I just find this so inappropriate. No one in such a position ever WANTS to be a shooter, and it isn’t a coup in any way. People in that position are heroes because they do things no one wants to do and b the thing no one wants to be. I’m sure she and thousands of other me and women in similar situations would be extatic to know that they have not taken human life, even if it was the right thing to do at the time.
Stop sensationalising it, and acting like it’s some kind of honour. That just insults people in te police force and armed forces who are haunted daily by these very actions. (and I thank every one of them for their all too difficult sacrifices)
*ecstatic.
argh
Quite. My jaw literally dropped when I read that sentence. I’m sure she wouldn’t be the least bit sad to find out that she didn’t make the kill shot.
“No one in such a position ever WANTS to be a shooter”
Point of order, quite a few people actually DO want to be the shooter. Law enforcement and military jobs often attract just that sort of people.
In any case I don’t throw around the word hero very often. I think it’s used so much that it has little worth in day to day life. I’m not going to say she is or isn’t a hero. As far as I can tell she did her job in a very harrowing situation, and that is a commendable thing, but I’m withholding my judgment as to her heroism. I’ll have to think it over. Like I said, I don’t use the term lightly.
Perhaps my standards are too high…but I stand by them.
ANYONE who runs TOWARD an asshole firing on defenseless people to try and stop what is going on is a hero in my book. Plus, the fact she was wounded all adds up to her being incredibly brave.
There’s no doubt she’s a badass!
And I guarantee you that Munley and Todd would be the first to credit the other officer’s heroism.
Exactly.