Friends since boyhood, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler are now three young Americans who went from tourists in France, to France’s national heroes this past Friday. “The Arras Heroes,” the French are calling them, in reference to the train station and town where a foiled terrorist attack came to a conclusion.

In the few minutes it took them to overpower a terrorist on a train carrying 500 passengers they not only prevented a massacre, but also represented to the world our own country’s refusal to cower in the face of terrorism. Continue reading →