Posted on 09/07/2006 6:41:59 PM PDT by lightman
Second-best possible outcome.
Found with his gun in his mouth, best possible outcome.
What a great and proud family tradition. OTH I'm doing what I can to keep my boys away from police work...not that I'd stop them or could I suppose...but thats down the road a bit
Believe me, I do understand. My mother did everything she could to keep my brother from joining NYPD........she even dragged me into it and when I went back to Brooklyn that year for Cristmas practically begged me to "try and talk some sense into him" and talk him out of it. I told her, in front of him, that since he never paid me nonevermind while we were growing up, why did she think he would pay attention to anything I said (at that time)???
He wound up being a great cop. He was retired out after 18 years because of a line of duty injury. He and I never really got along, but I will give credit where credit is due. Every story I know about situations he handled came from elsewhere, he rarely talked about, and never bragged abuot, things he had done.
On my department we have about 5 sets of father and sons on a department of close to 400. We only have a population of 200,000 so were not exactly NYPD but that struck me as on the high end. I told my older son that the fire deaprtment was the way to go. How can you beat barbeques and catching your favorite TV shows at work...8>) Actually we love our fire department. Well some of us do.
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