Because of Chloe.

A stranger my daughter had never met is alive and unharmed and whole today because my nineteen-year-old girl, given a choice between her own safety and a stranger’s, did not hesitate for even a heartbeat.

I have run missions with the bravest men this country has ever produced, men whose courage is the stuff of stories that will never be told.

I am not sure any of us, on our best day, ever did anything braver than what my daughter did in that dark alley with nothing but her own body and her own refusal to look away.