Patriotic public servants are my new heroes (commentary)

Career Foreign Service officer George Kent and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify during the first public impeachment hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Nov. 22, 2019
By Bill McCann

We all have our heroes – family members, sports figures, political leaders, and military men and women.

My first hero was my grandfather, whose hero was Abraham Lincoln. Grandpap could recite every word of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and taught it to me. In college, I admired President John Kennedy, who stood up to the Soviet Union in Cuba and who sent us on a quest to the moon. After military service, I added to my list of heroes the combat medics and helicopter rescue pilots in Vietnam.

Now with the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump under way, I have some new heroes. They are career public servants who have stepped forward courageously to tell House investigators under oath what they know about Trump’s efforts to coerce political help from Ukraine to aid his reelection.

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