Two brave people, one of whom finally gets a deserved reward

It’s palette cleanser time.  This time I’m not whining about the political scene.  Instead, I’m leading to the stories of two brave people.  I’ll start with the more recent, less complicated story first.  Once upon a time there was a very pretty young lady who worked at a little coffee kiosk.  And once upon a time, there was a teenage boy with a gun and attitude.  See what happened when these two intersected.

That was the first, simple story.  The second is a much more complicated story about war, heroism, torture, bureaucratic limitations, incompetence and hard-heartedness, and a few good people who never gave up.  Read it here.