Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry,
Well I see a major difference in your situation and the others we have
been talking about, you were obviously in shock, just you saying it
comes in bit's and pieces to you tells me that. Yet I do not see the
people who were watching this as being in shock, rather they were in the
"I don't want to get involved" mode, heck they didn't even tell the
police where the body was when the police were searching for him.
People don't do acts to become hero's they aren't even thinking of that,
they are mainly trying to help another in distress. These people decided
it was more entertaining to watch the show. It doesn't take a hero to
help another, it just takes common decency and respect for human life.
The press and media labels hero's, most of us look at a situation
knowing we would have helped if we could. Would it have taken a hero to
save this man? No, it would have only taken a 911 call.
It's easy to try to come up with an excuse on why no one did anything,
but the truth is they watched a man beat to death and there is no excuse
for that.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Doc and Kathy,
>
> We all have the identical reaction. And yet why are all those people so
> different from all 250 million of the rest of us?
>
> This is not exactly a story of great pride. When I was on a bus bombed by
> the Viet Cong I watched one man - a Sgt. Sullivan - helping those who were
> the most severely off the bus. I remembered then and now everything in
> flashes. I was as helpless to lend a hand as I was not to panic at the
> instant of the explosion.
>
> The sergeant was an alcoholic who was later booted out of the service in
> disgrace through my own intelligence office because he tried on his own to
> show the operation of the black market with military supplies. He did that
> and it cost both him and the man he caught their careers in lieu of courts
> martial.
>
> I don't know if heros are just made that way or not. Surely I would have
> called the cops just as I would at least help the wounded next time. Hell
> everybody would. There was no next time for me just as there will not be
> for the cab driver and the spectators in the buildings anymore than for
> Kitty Genovese.
>
> It's easy to point fingers at times of incredible shows of cowardice and
> indifference. We would never be like that. Not one of hundreds of millions
> of us.
> Best, Terry
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Kathy E
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