Thanks for your kind reply...I was somewhat on the fence about these children being sent in to bring water to Terri...on the one hand, it did seem like a brave thing to do, if this is what the children really believed...but I had to wonder about the wisdom of it...how did they expect to give Terri the water?...what did they think would happen if they tried to enter the hospice?...it appeared that they did, what they did either at their parents bequest, or at least with their parents approval...
Here we come to another point...every time some little girl or boy disappears, and is found later to have been raped and murdered, there are always tons of Freepers, declaring that it was to be expected, after all, the parents did not do all to keep their kids safe...Danielle VanDames parents were swingers, so what did they expect?...Elizabeth Smart was a Mormon(I am not a Mormon, but get sick of seeing so much Mormon bashing), and therefore her all too trusting father did not care for her correctly, and oh, ,by the way, she was indoctrinated into plural wives concept by her religion, so these posters tell us, thats why she did not try to escape...and after all, Samantha Runyon was killed, because she was in front of her house, with her grandmother inside, and grannie wasnt paying enough attention..and there were those that blamed little Samanthas mom, because she had a 'job'...oh the horror of it, having a job...then the latest little angel in Florida, all these upright Christian posters, flinging around their accusations, accusing the dad, because he did not seem 'clean cut' enough for them, because he may be not as educated as them, because on and on and on...you get my point...The blame for the deaths and harm that came to all these children, was the fault of the criminal, not the fault of the parents...but you would never know that, from the discussions here on FR..
And yet, those very same posters, may be congratulating children for getting into trouble when they tried to get into Terris hospice....they also put their children in direct danger...who knows what is going to happen at that hospice? Thank goodness those children were safe...
Lots and lots of flip flopping going on around here...
"And yet, those very same posters, may be congratulating children for getting into trouble when they tried to get into Terris hospice....they also put their children in direct danger...who knows what is going to happen at that hospice? Thank goodness those children were safe... "
With all the lunatic fringe crap that has been spouted recently, ther eis a very real possibility of some lone Eric Rudolph type, or a group of them, starting violence. Those kids would have been right in the line of fire.
And I don't buy for a MINUTE that they did it on their own. Their "father" was BEHIND them. Besides, no kid can do something like that without their parent's express approval and encouragement.
Both my kids saw the kids bringing the cups of water, both of them said they wished they could bring her a cup of water. My 11 year old son asked if we could fly down to Florida. I was touched... but I don't know if I would have let them do it... just not sure. Anyhow, it was symbolic.