Posted on 12/06/2004 10:49:47 AM PST by timpad
Most people could only imagine the scene: a 10-month-old child lifeless in a crib, her mother sitting on the couch holding a knife.
They winced, shivered. And they thought about something else.
For a few people, several police officers and paramedics, the images won't easily be forgotten. They were the first ones to respond to Dena Schlosser's Plano apartment on Nov. 22. When they arrived, they found Mrs. Schlosser's youngest daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, with her arms cut off.
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No doubt...They deal in the reality so many of us try to flee on a daily basis.
Amen to that brother. I have a 1 year old daughter, and I just can't imagine someone doing this to anyone, much less a child, much less their own child. I pray these people can find some peace over this. It just makes me sick hearing about it.
My son is one of them----NYPD.
So often, we focus on the physical security and safety of our police officers and firemen. But what about their minds and their souls? Can you imagine dealing with this?
We each need to be constantly thankful for the courage and sacrifice of those who serve us, every day, right here in the streets of our own country.
Thank you for your son. And thank him for all of us.
Amen. Picturing that scene has been haunting me since it was first reported. It is traumatic just to think about. God Bless those who must be the ones to face it first hand.
God Bless your son and all he does. He has my admiration and respect.
I had a guys arm in my playmate cooler when I was a Coastie. Not as bloody as I expected.
VFDs typically call together an "incident stress debriefing" after grisly tragedies. The most memorable day in my brief career as a volunteer fire fighter featured three structure fires in a department that usually got one a month. The middle fire involved kerosene space heaters in a trailor and three dead kids. I go there in time to see 'em shifting a tiny skeleton from the ashes -- turned out to be the family dog. I then spent an hour fending off the dogs and media camera men drawn by the scent of human tragedy. I had some really vivid nightmares over the next few weeks.
My girlfriends dad worked with a small VFD in a town on US-12 in Michigan. US-12 is a very busy two lane highway across the state. They dealt with a lot of really bad truck/car accidents.
My husband is one of them - Fairfax County PD, VA.
God Bless.
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I had never thought about those that find these things - May God bless them, give them strength to face these things and do what is necessary and then to live with it.
Some things are just too hard to have to see.
I agree. And those who take positions in which they are the first to see have my prayers and humble admiration. There is no doubt that they need our prayers for the amount of horror to which their souls are exposed. And I am thankful for them, that God has given them this hard calling in life.
Yes, you can't UNsee them. May God give all First Responders His Grace to live with.
I am afraid I would come apart pretty quickly. I have a friend who is a Houston fireman. The dead babies and idiot parents he has to deal with would be one of the worst.
Do we have to excerpt from this paper? I would like to read the whole thing but I won't go through all that sign up information and get spam mail just to read one article. What happened? Can you give more detail?
The Morning News is on the excerpt list. Have you heard about bugmenot.com? It might help, it provides logins to sites so you don't have to sign up.
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