“Walk me through what happened”.
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Three weeks ago Anthony Sadler was just an American tourist on a European vacation.
National Guardsman Adam Sadler appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday evening, where he told the captivated audience about how he and his military buddies took down the terrorist on the Paris-bound train last month.
He said the gunman tried to fire at his friend, but the gun didn’t go off. Authorities identified the gunman as 26-year-old Ayoub El-Khazzani.
Stone, whose thumb was nearly severed by the attacker in France, was the last of the three friends to return to the United States, arriving on Thursday after receiving medical treatment at a U.S. Army hospital in Germany.
“As he was cocking [the rifle] to shoot it, Alek just yells, ‘Spencer go!’ and Spencer runs down the aisle”, Sadler told reporters. Now, instead of sharing the shame and life-long secret of what they did in Amsterdam (oh we’ve been to Amsterdam…we know why you were on that train), they are the truest Americans in America, representing all of our values and hopes and dreams and probably equally loving baseball, football, cheeseburgers and thin but healthy-looking women with light eye make-up. But as of Monday, it had another association that may trump them all: hero. “It’s pretty insane to think about”.
Sadler, a senior kinesiology major at Sacramento State University, was to be thanked for his actions by school president Robert S. Nelsen.
“Spencer hopped on him, a few seconds [later] me and Alek were there and then we got to beat him down a little bit”, Sadeler continued, his statement was met with a roar of applause.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said earlier Thursday that with all three heroes back in Sacramento, the city will honor their bravery with a parade down the Capitol Mall on September 11.
In related news, Skarlatos has signed on for the 21st season of Dancing With the Stars, joining a cast that includes Paula Deen, Gary Busey and Chaka Khan.
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