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Subject:Re: who Cares?
From:Stephen Steele
Date:Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:57:51 -0400

From a three-way perspective;
1)As a young Navy officer with a brand new MGB, I took the "let me fly
through the air" attitude until I had to go to  a crash scene and ID one of
my 18 year old crewmen plastered around a palm tree because he didn't have
on his seat belt...( his jeep continued on fairly unscathed into some
brush).
2) Later in life, I am now a firefighter/paramedic. At least weekly we see
the aftermath of truely unforeseeable happenstances/accidents...quadrapelgia
means no "real" life for you or the survivors you leave in your wake...and
flying through the air generally ends with an abrupt, devastating stop.
3) On July fourth '96 I was driving my wife , mother and dog home from our
getaway, country place when a drunk rounded a corner,  heading directly for
us; I swerved in reaction and if I weren't seat belted I would have been
thrown into my wife's lap and wrecked the car. As it turned out, I managed
to miss the blunt head-on and the drunk side swiped us ... my seat belt
saved me, two other loved ones and possibly the idiot drunk too.

Free will is our own as long as we are prepared to protect others freely and
willfully.

--
Stephen Steele
'91 Caravelle

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