The American Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming has honored the Club Q shooting hero Richard Fierro with the Lifesaving Military Hero of the Year Award
The decorated Army veteran was presented the award during the 2023 Rocky Mountain Heroes Soirée in Denver Saturday night."We're all the same. They're all heroes in there. It was a nightmare," Richard Fierro said of everyone else who was there that night who jumped into action, whether it was to tackle the shooter or help others in need.
"I was a military kid. The Red Cross has been involved in my life the whole time. That's kind of where I'm going with it. It's just to support community, that's all it's about," he said."It's such a wonderful thing, that we acknowledge something in a positive light during the worst offense, and the Red Cross does that."
"I think people need to start looking for mental health and all that stuff before it gets out of control. I'm one that now has accepted it. It was very hard for me as a younger man to say, 'Oh, I'll take help.' And now I'm able to do that," said Fierro. "It's hard for us to catch up to merch orders and all those things. So we're getting there slowly. We're trying really hard to get everybody happy because we were so blessed by the support of the community," Fierro explained."But we're going to get there and it just takes time, and we got to heal a little bit to get there."
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