Scenes out of a movie
The daring rescue of ship captain Richard Phillips brings some comparisons to some of the greatest big box-office Hollywood thriller.
According to the news reports, over the five days between when Phillips, an Underhill, Vt., resident was captured by Somali pirates, he was captured, tried to jump off the lifeboat where he was being held and swim to shore, got shot at by automatic weapons in the water, re-captured, then saved by Navy seals when naval snipers killed three of the four pirates that held him hostage.
Holy cow! It has all the makings of a Bruce Willis or Kevin Costner flick. But it's all real. And there's a lot of heroes involved, no one leading man.
Easter Sunday, in the Christian term, is the day when Jesus was resurrected... it seems a very fitting day for the return (safely) of a hero on the high seas.
-Adam Samrov