He Came Face To Face With Evil And Learned How To Forgive

<blockquote> “Somehow, she’d survived the massacre when ISIS had opened fire on civilians fleeing the city. That was almost two days ago. Now, in a pile of rotting corpses she huddled next to her dead mother’s body suffering an even more cruel demise under the relentless desert sun. No doubt ISIS had left her as bait, and we’d taken it.” — <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/City-of-Death-Audiobook/1549142704?source_code=GO1MB12109072190YI&gclid=CjwKCAjwgZCoBhBnEiwAz35RwvaSvvTfaryKgRZXWvRNJr4knNP-_0hVujz8jk7Duqkb33PPhzo6sxoCLr8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul</a>, Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen </blockquote> The historian <a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/what-great-historians-can-teach-us-about-life-and-how-to-live-684d925317db" rel="noopener">Will Durant</a> once said history as written is usually different from history as lived. By this he means the extreme is recorded before the ordinary. So, it tends to skew reality. I believe this to be true, but not all extremes are covered equally, and some fade behind others. While not “forgotten,” many miss them. One of these events happened in May of 2017. On its face, the instance perfectly captures both the depravity and heroism which can exist in the same species of humanity. On the darker end, ISIS fought to maintain their hold on the city of Mosul versus the Iraqi army. And they let any end justify the means. The terrorist group considered civilians leaving the warzone traders, and slaughtered them indiscriminately. Even children weren’t safe from their wrath. On the brighter end, unfathomable heroism took place daily. In one instance, a group of volunteers crept behind an Abrams battle tank. As machine gun fire rained down from a bombed-out hospital, some of the men behind the vehicle darted out into no-man’s land. They crossed an area with no cover, filled with corpses, grabbing a child and survivors. <a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/he-came-face-to-face-with-evil-and-learned-how-to-forgive-42bb5896f134">Visit Now</a>