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eric_bean34
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Human Character
Posted: 11 Sep 06 2:24 PM
I sat and pondered the human character and what makes a person the way they are. What could they have endured as a child to be the man or woman they are today? We had a fire drill at work the other night and some nurses and another guard was talking about how if it was the real deal they would be the first ones out the door and hell with the study volunteer's. Now the guard that was there said he would hold the door open long enough for his ass to bail thru it and piss on the rest. I know i don't get paid much but I take drills and actual events seriously iguess because of my military training. This guy had been in the army and I would think he would help the others get out before he left himself but now I wonder. I mean I even wonder if the chips are down would he have MY back? He asked me what I would do in that situation and I just simply said what I get paid to do. Maybe because living thru fires onboard a Navy vessel and seeing how it impacts lives I know I would do what I had to do. So I sat at my desk that night and pondered what had happened to me in my life to make me brave/stupid enough to risk my life for others I do not know, and what had happened to my co-worker to make his character so wavering...things I guess you think of when you are bored and trying to stay awake.
Finucane
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 11 Sep 06 3:11 PM
Eric, you might be surprised what some of these naysayers would actually do in an emergency, all BS aside.  I mean, nobody likes to brag on himself as being a hero, probably because nobody's sure what he'd do in an emergency and most of us aren't really sure we can cut the mustard.  And take those hoity-toity richkid college students in England before WWII, they sat in their comfy rooms at Cambridge and Oxford and swore they'd never go off to war like their fathers did in WWI, but guess who flew those Spitfires in the Battle of Britain?
Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 11 Sep 06 8:44 PM

Same thing with our fellows fighting for Chang Kai Shek in China agaisnt the Japanese before WE declared war on them.

My thought on it is thus: There are those people who seek the danger out, not for the thrill but the duty. Then there are the poeple who have to make a choise when the danger comes to them through little to no fault of thier own.
eric_bean34
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 12 Sep 06 1:56 AM
Well I don't go looking for danger or trouble. I don't brag on myself either. I know what I can do in those situations cause I have faced them before. And I will never leave a man behind
Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Human Character
Posted: 12 Sep 06 2:37 PM
I stand corrected.
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