Hooray for these two brave US soldiers:

The two American service members who tackled a gunman on ahigh-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head with his own automatic rifle until he was unconscious, one of them said in television interviews here on Saturday.

The suspect entered the train car carrying an AK-47 and a handgun, according to the Americans. “I looked over at Spencer and said, ‘Let’s go,’” said one of them, Alek Skarlatos, identified as an Oregon National Guardsman returning from Afghanistan. With him was Spencer Stone, a friend and a member of the Air Force. “And he jumped, I followed behind him by about three seconds. Spencer got the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck, I grabbed the handgun,” Mr. Skarlatos said.

The Pentagon confirmed the Americans’ identities.

The suspect wounded at least one passenger before the two men subdued him, and their quick action averted what officials said could have been a blood bath. On Saturday morning the French news media, government and social media praised their actions, and President Obama also hailed their bravery.

“Let’s go!” Sounds like Todd Beamer’s “Let’s roll!” God bless those American servicemen, the Todd Beamers of the Thalys train, who ran towards danger. I trust that the French will feed them very, very well.