Upstaged by baseball, soldier shows she's the real hero

Upstaged by baseball, soldier shows she's the real hero

March 24, 2005
BY MARK BROWN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

While America was distracted a week ago today by the sorry spectacle of the baseball steroids hearing, an Illinois National Guard helicopter pilot was on the other side of Capitol Hill offering a very different slant on the nature of heroes. As the beefy ballplayers offered their denials and evasions to a House committee, Maj. Tammy Duckworth was wheeled to the witness table in Room 418 of the Russell Senate Office Building, barely four months since a rocket-propelled grenade hit her Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq.


The explosion cost Duckworth, 37, of Hoffman Estates, both her legs and partial use of her right arm.

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Tammy Duckworth