Eubank is a former U.S. soldier, now an aid worker in Mosul.
He went there, with his wife and kids, because he believes God sent him. He questions himself from time to time, but mostly he carries out his mission- saving lives.
Here he is running into harm’s way to save a young girl who was trapped by gunfire, amidst a pile of dead bodies, and in danger of falling into the hands of ISIS.
David Eubank is a better man than me. Better than most.
He’s one hellova Badass
I wish it would soon be Senator David Eubanks…
A paratrooper, a Ranger and a Marine are in a jungle doing whatever and get captured by cannibals. The cannibals are like “we’re going to eat you and make your skin into a canoe, but our gods demand we let you kill yourselves however you want.” The paratrooper asks for his .45 and blows his brains out. The Ranger asks for one of his grenades, rushes several cannibals and takes them with him. The Marine asks for his plastic MRE spoon out of his pack, which he immediately breaks and uses to stab himself all over his body. After a minute or so the chief asks “What are you doing?” to which the Marine answers, “Fucking up your canoe!”
The guys a bad ass, why endanger your family? Why did the wife agree to go there. If you kill all the bad guys you do not need to save their victims. Seems a little misdirected to me.
American Tank, American Contractors. Why are the contractors using AK’s?
It’s one thing to act on what you feel you need to do, it’s another the put your wife and kids in harms way. On one hand he has all my respect, on the other I have to question him. I hope they stay safe.
“By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
Kipling
Few listen for the Holy Spirit and even fewer act upon His direction.
I admire his and his family’s Faith, courage and conviction.
May the Lord provide His protective cover over all who are with him.
Cato, Amen.
Gawd, and the Holy Spirit are pretty busy these days. Don’t be stupid.
I wouldn’t put my family there, no matter my own beliefs.
God bless him for what he is doing though.
Hold on. Bad ass, yes. Badly misguided too. Here’s the quote that guaranteed their write-up in the WaPo; “Our deal is that if there’s another family there, we can be there. Americans aren’t worth more than anyone else.”
WaPo link notice, if you don’t feel like giving them the click.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in/2017/06/08/
It is men and families like this that civilized the world. Godspeed to this incredibly brave example for humanity. This little girl will never forget.
If the worst should happen…he’s killed and his family captured…his children will in time become Mohammedans and his wife will be forcibly sex enslaved if not killed.
Very sorry but I do not see the will of God in that.
“One of the first things David does is apologize to people for what America did here. Not all of it was wrong, but some of it was. So we come and help not from a desire to have control or use the resources. If you go act out of love, that can be life changing,” she said.
The article says he went to Fuller. That has long been a liberalized school. I don’t trust the theology, hence the motives, of anybody who goes to a liberal school.
He should be inspiring others. With any act of kindness. he didn’t put his family in harms way. It is there choice. What a great family.