The great interviewer, reporter, and columnist Patt Morrison lays it down again, as always finding a fresh take on a big subject. Here's a taste of her newest story, to intrigue you:
A 20-year-old congressional college intern with only five days on the job saved Gabrielle Giffords’ life.
Daniel Hernandez ran toward the sound of gunshots. He pressed Safeway workers’ aprons against the congresswoman’s head wound to stanch the bleeding, and lifted her and held her upright so she wouldn’t drown in her own blood. Photos show him evidently covering her hands with his as he walked alongside her as she was carried off on a stretcher.
Daniel Hernandez is gay, a member of Tucson’s city commission on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. I bring this up not only because gay websites are talking it up, but because it reminds me of another gay man who thwarted an assassination attempt — but in a very different time and cultural climate.
This time it was Daniel Hernandez. As Morrison recounts, last time it was Oliver SIpple, who saved a President, and suffered for the privilege of doing his duty as a Marine.
Here's the iconic photo, from an astonishing site that focuses on that and only that: iconic photos.
Kit Stolz 
Excellent extra effort digging up iconic pic of Sipple.
I expect insensitivity and indignity, even as I’m certain we indeed grow, decade by slow decade. Scrolling the 29 comments under Morrison’s piece, folks argued if orientation is newsworthy or mere media opportunism, but that’s not what struck me: It was an absence of brutal trolls. Gee, y’think it’s gone civil for a bit?
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