You remember the story of Clarence Good – the gentleman who along with a handful of heroic apartment dwellers, helped save the life of women and her two children from her knife-yielding husband in their Lemon Grove, CA apartment in August?

Clarence Good was hanging kitchen cabinets in an apartment unit when a neighbor burst in pleading for his help. Good immediately went to the apartment where the husband was threatening his family with a knife.

A different neighbor was able to grab the youngest child from the father and yet another neighborhood grabbed some pepper spray from her apartment which used to help the older child escape. Good then fought the father, tackled him in a parking lot and received numerous knife wounds. In the end the father turned the knife on himself and died.

Good, along with 7 other San Diego County heroes, was honored yesterday by the Law Enforcement Salute to Local Heroes.

All the apartment dwellers who were there that day are heroes too. Being an apartment dweller myself, all too often my neighbors in an apartment complex are just people loading and unloading laundry, driving by in the parking, heading to and from work, or even just people I curse for the volume of their music.

This story makes me realize that I not just an apartment renter, but rather I am someone's neighbor, and hopefully I too can be counted on if need be like the neighbors in that Lemon Grove apartment.