Robin De Haven for the Statesman

When Joe Stack flew his plane into the Echelon I in north Austin last February, Robin De Haven was on the freeway heading to another glass installation job.  The 28-year-old Iraq war veteran used the ladder on his company truck to rescue six people from the second floor of the burning building and then quietly left the scene.  Not so quietly, the media descended on his story.  De Haven became an instant celebrity and was hounded for interviews for months.  His relationship with the word "hero" is a complicated one.

The Statesman's Andrea Ball wrote about De Haven in an interesting piece on heroism and the media which you can read here. 

Austin Plane Crash for USA Today

Yesterday morning Joseph Stack flew his Piper Dakota plane into the Echelon I office building in north Austin.  It appears that Stack wrote a 3,000 word anti-government manifesto and set his own house on fire before driving to a Georgetown airport where he flew less than 30 miles to the building that housed offices of the IRS.  Read the story here.