One good definition of "hero" is someone who rushes to another's aid, disregarding their personal safety to succor a fellow human being. There are other definitions, but this is the one that applies to the 82nd Airborne's Sergeant Brian Lieberman, a medic assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, who rushed to the aid of a person not in the line of his military duties, but when a shooting occurred just outside his apartment.

Army Sgt. Brian Lieberman, 22, said he was "just doing his job" when he saved the life of a 14-year-old girl in the middle of a shooting at his apartment complex. But the United States Army believes Lieberman is an American hero, meriting the Soldier's Medal.

Lieberman, an Army medic, is assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The Soldier's Medal is a significant award and is only presented to someone who has accepted a risk to his or her own life to carry out their duty. In Sergeant Lieberman's case, he saw a teenage girl hit in a drive-by shooting, rushed to help her, and protected her with his own body when the shooter returned.

On June 5, 2023, a gunman attacked the Carrington Place apartment complex in North Carolina, shooting a teenage girl in the back. Army training instincts kicked in, and Lieberman rushed into the line of fire.

"I looked out my window with my roommate and we heard people screaming and saw people running around by my complex pool, at which point I grabbed my weapon and ran out my front door while my roommate dialed 911," Lieberman said to Fox News Digital.

"As I got downstairs, I approached a group of people and I threw my hands up and stated that I am an army medic and they pointed to an individual that was lying in the street. I was only able to locate a single gunshot wound to her lower back."

Sergeant Lieberman, as he was trained, started to treat the wound. Then the gunman returned.

"The shooter's vehicle drove past us again, and my roommate yelled at me to get down. I threw myself over the girl while the shooters drove by [and] shot at us again, and then that was when I pulled my weapon out to return fire into the suspect's vehicle." 

Lieberman then continued seeing to the young victim's wounds until medical personnel arrived on-scene.

This, folks, is the stuff heroes are made of.

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The word "hero" is tossed about far too casually these days. I've never cared for the term "sports hero," as I don't think there's anything heroic about a bunch of wealthy dudes tossing a ball around. The word can have personal meanings; if anyone, to this day, asked me who my number-one hero was, I would say my Dad, but that's for personal reasons. But you will see a politician described as a "hero to the left/right," or a movie actor described as a "hero of stage and screen," and so on. I don't think the word "hero" applies in those cases, and using it as such cheapens the word. 

But there can be no doubt that Sergeant Brian Lieberman, on June 5th of 2023, engaged in what may only be described as an act of heroism. It's good that the Army is finally recognizing him for it.

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