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Stephen T. Johns: Holocaust Museum Hero 1970-2009
“Today and every day, we have an opportunity as well as an obligation to confront these scourges… we have the opportunity to make a habit of empathy, to recognize ourselves in each other, to commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference, in whatever forms they may take…” President Barack Obama-April 2009 Holocaust Museum Remembrance Day Event.
Stephen T. Johns was a security guard who worked at the Washington, D.C. Holocaust Museum.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Johns was murdered by a very old, very desperate, hate-filled deranged man who has extremely harmful out-dated ideas about people who are Jewish or Black. The man who committed this devastating crime is a menace to our society.
Stephen Johns was a husband. He was a caring father to twelve year-old son, Stephen T. Johns, Jr. and a loving son to his mother. We send our sincere condolences to Mrs. Johns, his wife of just one year; Mrs. Jacqueline Carter, the mother of the deceased Wackenhut security guard; his son, and the entire Johns family and all of Stephen Johns’ friends.
We hope this incident will develop in n Mr. Johns’ young son him a determination courageously chooses to help peacefully rid this society of people like the man who murdered his father. We know it will be challenging to express love. We understand it is not an easy thing to do when all around you are remarking about the coward who committed this heinous crime.
Stephen T. Johns will always be remembered as a hero who saved the lives of many on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus the Christ~ New Testament John 15:13
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