north1 - 1/30/2026 18:42
Two of my best friends are and were county sheriffs. I liken some of their stories to what soldiers see in combat with the addition of the worst you could imagine civilians do. Incomprehensible things that make your skin crawl and your stomach weak. There are things you can’t unsee and they experience them over the span of a 40+ year career.
Whenever someone disrespects law enforcement or first responders I think of what they experience/those stories and it angers me to no end. I wish your son the best and hope he can deal long term with the worst humanity has to offer.
One of my close friends is a former state trooper who’s in his mid 70’s. We became friends about 6 years ago when he came to the farm looking for a job. Anyway he told me a story about a terrible head on collision that happened about 20 years ago on a state highway actually just outside of my hometown. Everyone died in both cars. He ran out across the field to get to one of the cars and heard a baby crying. Somehow an infant was the only person who survived. He had tears in his eyes telling me how he got the baby out and having to crawl across the bodies of the parents to do it. He said he hears that baby’s cry’s sometimes. Just an unbelievable story.
Edited by Detroit 1/30/2026 21:58
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