Blue Star Chronicles

Meet Kimberly Munley, police officer, mother and Ft. Hood massacre hero. In the biography section of her twitter page, long before the events of this week, she describes herself as ‘I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone’s life.’ And she certainly has. She is a true American heroine!

Kimberly Munley

Officer Kimberly Munley was doing her job, directing traffic on the Ft. Hood Army base in Killeen, Texas. She and her partner just happened to be walking by the deployment processing center when shots rang out. She was the first responder on the scene where Army Major Nadal Hasan had trapped a large number of Soldiers in a waiting area and begun shooting them. She is credited with taking down Hasan and saving untold lives, even after she was wounded herself.

If there is a silver lining to be found in tragedies and/or murderous attacks such as the one perpetrated on our Soldiers at Ft. Hood, it is that we see the other side of human nature. That’s the innate courage and self-sacrifice that some people exhibit in direct contrast to the cowardly acts of those who perpetrate the violence. That was true when we were attacked on 9/11/2001, it was true when Nadal Hasan yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and began his bloody terrorist attack on unarmed Soldiers.

Kim Munley happened to be the first to arrive on the scene and happened to be one of those people who has the courage to act. She is credited with taking down Hasan with four shots. Witnesses say that she was shot through both legs but kept firing, bringing the rampage and the lose of life at the Soldier Readiness Center to an end just moments after the attack started.

As a biography, Munley is 34-years-old and a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base. She is the mother of two daughters ages 12-years-old and 3-years-old. She is from Carolina Beach, North Carolina and the daughter of Dennis Barbour who was once the mayor there. She was a police officer for five years in North Carolina, and American Soldier, a DOD civilian officer and an American Heroine.

Munley was wounded in her arm and both legs with three gunshot wounds inflicted by ‘cop killer’ ammunition. She lost a great deal of blood and lost consciousness. She was rushed to a nearby hospital and has had surgery to repair an artery and is still in the hospital listed in ’stable’ condition. She has expressed her regret that she couldn’t’ have responded quicker and saved more lives. She also claims that she’s no hero, but heroes always say that because doing what they do is their nature.

Kimberly Munley is the example of the good that’s in human nature that comes out when the worst is happening around us. She’s the Ft. Hood massacre hero.

Photo: Hope2forget30 / Twitter
she is pictured with country singer Dierks Bentley.