Posted on 03/20/2018 5:03:55 AM PDT by LRoggy
It never happens to those you know. It never happens in your area. It never happens … until it does.
I've written for Florida Lacrosse News for about seven years, and it's almost always been about positive news. Of course, there's been the odd story about a program caught in an infraction and having to forfeit some games, or a coach or athletic director arrested for something, or even a star player going down injured.
Nothing like this.
I'm not an emotional person in general when it comes to tragedies. I turn 60 years old this year. I lost a close friend on 9/11. I was nearly the victim of a terrorist act in London in the early 1990s, an act that pretty much broke every window in a 50-story office building, including the one I had sat next to two hours before the blast.
First, let me thank Inside Lacrosse, Terry, Geoff and the rest of the crew, for giving me this forum to let out my own feelings and how the lacrosse world was affected, and is still being affected, by the events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Fla.). Writing is pretty cathartic for me at times and sometimes it can help others, and I hope that those who are reading can take some solace from this in the end.
On the day of the attack, I was doing what I normally do on a weekday just before the Florida high school lacrosse season starts — sitting in front of my computer and TV screens and finding a way to juggle my work as a financial advisor for a somewhat sleepy book of business while also grinding out articles from press releases and my own original content, mostly District previews.
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Excellent Article. I grew up in the Hudson Valley and played Lacrosse all the way through high school. I became close to the folks in the Army program as a youth player and continued to play club while in the Army and as a coach when my son began to play. I saw something like this at Army when Navy’s Brendan Looney was KIA overseas. Lax brings people together.
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