An email: I must clear the air..
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:46 pm
Someone just sent me a very upsetting email, and it has to be someone registered with Storm2, because they referred to posts I've made on this forum...and it's for registered members only.
My only motive for creating a website in honor of Pfc Jessica Lynch was to let her and America know how proud of her....how thankful I am she's alive and safe.
After discussing it with both a nurse/ physical therapist (a friend) and a retired psychiatrist (sis's father in law), I decided to add a guestbook and message board, so others could wish Jessica get well messages, messages of support and love. She has a very difficult road ahead...and attitude is crucial. Any words of support and love; knowing others are praying for her, pulling for her has to be beneficial.
I'm not infatuated with Jessica, nor do I pity her. It's compassion and love...the same love I feel for my sisters. When one of them is sick, I worry myself to death. How can I love someone like a sister I've never met? If you have compassion and care for someone...love in your heart, you can with no problem whatsoever.
I've never met David (vbhoutex) in my life, but feel as if he is my brother. Marshall is welcome in my home anytime, so is Patricia (ticka). I feel as if RP (ConstructionWx) is a brother, as I do "Barometer" Bob Brookens. I'm worried to death about Aaron, I'm worried to death about Mike (HurricaneDude)...they seem like my own nephews, maybe even sons. I've only known Jacki from Iowa for a few weeks and feel like she's a little sister. She's cute as a doll and nice to everyone. When they hurt, I hurt...that's just the way I am. In this part of the country, that's the way we're raised. I felt so badly I didn't know about Mike's son, I wept. He's an honorable man..I know. My heart and conscience tells me he is...so is Chad, so is DJ (ArizWx).
In all honesty, I didn't pick Jessica Lynch to create a website for...she picked me. I was preparing a small website in honor of her and other POW-MIA, asking for prayers when she was rescued...and I learned how those big bullies brutalized her. It broke my heart, and I decided on the spot to create her a gift...something special in honor of her bravery, but also something to make her feel better, make the pain go away. I let my heart be my guide, something I never did on any weather website I've ever created.
I had a great uncle that for years made kids happy around here because he'd make them toys in his woodshop...just because he was kind hearted and loved children. He once bought a little neighborhood girl a new bicycle he didn't even know because he found out she had cancer. I'll never forget a sweet little elderly lady that used to manage a laundrymat here in town. Her name was Miss Cotton. She always had a huge bucket of candy and would lavish it on every child that entered. I doubt Miss Cotton made minimum wage, but she always had that candy bucket full, and always paid for it out of her own paycheck...just because she was a kind hearted lady. We all cried like babies when she died in 1974...including my mom and dad.
I've changed quite a bit since 2000 at GoPBI....those that knew me then can tell. Part of it was 9/11...in fact, a large part of it was that horrible September morning. I decided then and there to start being nicer...to stop taking people for granted. Part of it was also growing older, passing age 40, and realizing I won't live forever. I only want one thing to be remembered about me when I'm gone...that I was nice...a kind southern gentleman that left the world a better place than he found it.
Everyone that knows Jessica Lynch tells me the exact same thing...how compassionate she is, how nice, how kind...she always puts others first. One lady told me the other night Jessi and her little sister Brandi donated their own HAIR to make her a wig after cancer chemo caused hers to fall out. The same two girls and their mother walked 15 miles in a walkathon to raise money for the lady's cancer treatment. Thats compassion and it's love...because they weren't even related to the woman. Jessica is a sweetheart...go read the messages in that forum...from the folks that know her.
I know in my heart I'm doing right...my website is honorable, respectful, compassionate...created with love. My motives are as pure as snowflakes. Only someone without a heart could fail to see that.
Sorry, but I just wanted to set the record straight..
God Bless,
Perry
My only motive for creating a website in honor of Pfc Jessica Lynch was to let her and America know how proud of her....how thankful I am she's alive and safe.
After discussing it with both a nurse/ physical therapist (a friend) and a retired psychiatrist (sis's father in law), I decided to add a guestbook and message board, so others could wish Jessica get well messages, messages of support and love. She has a very difficult road ahead...and attitude is crucial. Any words of support and love; knowing others are praying for her, pulling for her has to be beneficial.
I'm not infatuated with Jessica, nor do I pity her. It's compassion and love...the same love I feel for my sisters. When one of them is sick, I worry myself to death. How can I love someone like a sister I've never met? If you have compassion and care for someone...love in your heart, you can with no problem whatsoever.
I've never met David (vbhoutex) in my life, but feel as if he is my brother. Marshall is welcome in my home anytime, so is Patricia (ticka). I feel as if RP (ConstructionWx) is a brother, as I do "Barometer" Bob Brookens. I'm worried to death about Aaron, I'm worried to death about Mike (HurricaneDude)...they seem like my own nephews, maybe even sons. I've only known Jacki from Iowa for a few weeks and feel like she's a little sister. She's cute as a doll and nice to everyone. When they hurt, I hurt...that's just the way I am. In this part of the country, that's the way we're raised. I felt so badly I didn't know about Mike's son, I wept. He's an honorable man..I know. My heart and conscience tells me he is...so is Chad, so is DJ (ArizWx).
In all honesty, I didn't pick Jessica Lynch to create a website for...she picked me. I was preparing a small website in honor of her and other POW-MIA, asking for prayers when she was rescued...and I learned how those big bullies brutalized her. It broke my heart, and I decided on the spot to create her a gift...something special in honor of her bravery, but also something to make her feel better, make the pain go away. I let my heart be my guide, something I never did on any weather website I've ever created.
I had a great uncle that for years made kids happy around here because he'd make them toys in his woodshop...just because he was kind hearted and loved children. He once bought a little neighborhood girl a new bicycle he didn't even know because he found out she had cancer. I'll never forget a sweet little elderly lady that used to manage a laundrymat here in town. Her name was Miss Cotton. She always had a huge bucket of candy and would lavish it on every child that entered. I doubt Miss Cotton made minimum wage, but she always had that candy bucket full, and always paid for it out of her own paycheck...just because she was a kind hearted lady. We all cried like babies when she died in 1974...including my mom and dad.
I've changed quite a bit since 2000 at GoPBI....those that knew me then can tell. Part of it was 9/11...in fact, a large part of it was that horrible September morning. I decided then and there to start being nicer...to stop taking people for granted. Part of it was also growing older, passing age 40, and realizing I won't live forever. I only want one thing to be remembered about me when I'm gone...that I was nice...a kind southern gentleman that left the world a better place than he found it.
Everyone that knows Jessica Lynch tells me the exact same thing...how compassionate she is, how nice, how kind...she always puts others first. One lady told me the other night Jessi and her little sister Brandi donated their own HAIR to make her a wig after cancer chemo caused hers to fall out. The same two girls and their mother walked 15 miles in a walkathon to raise money for the lady's cancer treatment. Thats compassion and it's love...because they weren't even related to the woman. Jessica is a sweetheart...go read the messages in that forum...from the folks that know her.
I know in my heart I'm doing right...my website is honorable, respectful, compassionate...created with love. My motives are as pure as snowflakes. Only someone without a heart could fail to see that.
Sorry, but I just wanted to set the record straight..
God Bless,
Perry