Samantha Bell Is Dead Wrong, Joe Stack is No Hero Says Crash Victim's Family
Photo: Crash Victim Vernon Hunter.
"How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, gets into his plane ... and drives it into the building to kill people?" Ken Hunter told Good Morning America. "My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad's a hero."
Ken Hunter told CBS affiliate KEYE on Saturday that he is outraged by the idea of Stack being called a "hero" for what he did and the alleged reason he did it.
Photo: Joe Stack.
Joe Stack's daughter Samantha Bell, speaking by phone from Norway, told Good Morning America on Monday that she felt Stack's actions were "inappropriate" but said that at least now "people will listen."
She said she agreed with her father's views on America's "very faulty" government and said she hoped that her father's attack will change "everything."
"Rome was not built in one day, but one small step at a time, Bell told the morning show.
But Ken Hunter says he believes Stack's actions won't change anything.
"The only difference he made was he took away from my family and murdered a 20-year U.S. Army vet," Ken Hunter said.
At a memorial service at the Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church on Sunday, Vernon Hunter's pastor said faith is made for moments like this. His "life had the signature of compassion on it, those are the kind of people that transform a church, those are the kind of people that can transform people"
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