The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160080   Message #3795360
Posted By: keberoxu
13-Jun-16 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: thoughts on change
Subject: RE: BS: thoughts on change
There is a man who got a lot of attention for the school-shooting response in Chardon, Ohio, the coach Frank Hall; he ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. As I recall, he comes from a family where the men conventionally talk about the right to bear arms to defend yourself against tyranny, and they mean the governmental, federal sort. They have a hard time preaching that gospel when Frank is around, because he will say, "What are we doing with guns like THESE?" Frank Hall didn't have a gun when the shooter came to the school, and he didn't kill anybody; but he stopped worse things from happening, and when he had chased the shooter out of the building, he went back for the paralyzed and the dying, and stayed with them until the ambulance and the paramedics arrived.

Frank Hall is a foster father as well as a biological father; and at his job, coaching students, he regards the team as a family, with one father and many brothers. He talks about service, and he walks his talk.

And he doesn't even let his players "shoot their mouths off" without consequences: this is described on "Sixty Minutes" in the interview they did with him when he left Chardon for a school in Ashtabula County and put himself at the service of its student athletes. Now he is teaching them how to serve.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hero-coach-frank-hall-on-ohio-school-shooting-at-chardon-high       -- a transcript of the episode.