An Emotional Detour Before I Continue With Private iTeam

An Emotional Detour...

First I'd like to welcome and thank many of the new people who might be reading my blog this month.  I hope you will continue to visit and that I can either share some form of insight or entertainment (or both) through my fictional and non-fictional, life stories.  If there's any one thing that can be said, it is that I try to share...share laughs, knowledge, insight, hope and love through all that you see here.

For those who've been reading and following me...you already know the relationship I have with people in the New England states, and more specifically the greater Boston area.  For those who aren't sure...you can go back and read my "He Was A Cowboy Alright...But Darling Was His Name" real life story.  Also for my newer readers, you can read "The Family Texas Road Trip" or "Never Mix Your Neighbors..." for additional real life stories from me.  

So here's my real life, emotional detour from Private iTeam...the devastating bombing attack in Boston, MA.  I've had many friends over who have participated in marathons, including the NYC and Boston marathons.  I  also have a ton of high school and college friends from the Boston area.  Many of whom I still speak with.  So far, I don't directly know anyone that has been maimed or killed.  However, the numbers of announced injuries as a result of this tragedy are staggering.  25 to 30 people receiving amputation type injuries.  17 critically injured.  3 dead, including an 8 year old boy holding a banner for his father at the finish line.  Hundreds more with minor injuries.

In the 21st century, with all of these recent advances in technology, people now have this tremendous opportunity to communicate and share opposing political thoughts to millions across the world in an instant.  Yet why are some of us still turning to these barbaric forms of expression?  As of yet, no one has taken credit for this horrific murder scheme.  Making bombs takes some know how and intelligence.  What a waste of both...just to murder.  That intelligence should instead be combined with other intelligent people to figure out ways to help various countries with job creation and manufacturing alternate forms of fuel resources.  Maybe even make some money out of it for yourself.  Nope.  Instead, someone one or group of individuals chose to use that intelligence to kill.  How small.  So very, very small.  Smaller men, have made millions, with even less than this.  

No one will see this individual or individuals as a political ally.  Just a murderer of innocents.

Marathons represent man's ability to overcome great odds.  Even as my neighbors, friends, extended families in the greater Boston area suffer this tragedy...overtime they will endure.  They will come back just as New York has come back from multiple bombing attacks before and since 9/11.  Instead of weakening people's spirits, this/these murderers will only succeed in galvanizing people's resolve to thwart these murderous individuals in the long run.

We can be critical of our government for a lot of things.  But one thing is for certain, no matter the president, the governor or mayor...our federal and local governments happen to employ people who can find and capture terrorists overseas and within our own shores with only the slimmest of information.  They employ people who can drag pieces of a destroyed jet liner from the bottom of the ocean and meticulously put it back together in a hanger down to the last fragments.  These types of people will not waiver.  They will not quit...and they now have been extremely motivated to find you.  Whether it takes them a day, a year, or a decade, they will be on the job day and night to its completion.  Soon enough, the people or person behind this will be "next" on a list of captured murderers.

As for the rest of us, we need to continue to use the positive power of our voice and our intelligence to dissuade such ignorant, wasteful and murderous behavior.  There are dozens of  positive ways to stop oppression, make a point and change the world.  Murder is not the way.  We should be evolving from that type of thinking, not turning back towards it.  That 8 year old boy was no one's enemy.  Just a kid cheerleader for his dad.

The picture below is not mine.  I found it on a Google search.  I'm sure most New Yorkers are with me on it's overall message.  I hope you will all join New Yorkers in prayers to those families affected by this heinous act.