The Most Important Thing
just before lunchtime on Monday, the 14th of November 2005 by Chad
About six months ago, one of those teenagers came around to win points for something if we subscribed to the newspaper. It was 20$ for either 6 months or a year, and it is the Denver Post a couple days, and the Rocky Mountain News a couple days. Total about 5 days a week which is a bit weird.
The last time I subscribed to the paper, I ended up throwing it right from the driveway into the garbage can 6 days out of 7. I should have listened to my gut and just gave the kid a 20$ to leave.
So now, out of the last 6 months, we have taken the paper out of the plastic bag maybe 5 times.
One day last week on the way to the car, I grabbed one of the papers and put it on the passenger seat. Didn’t look at it though.
This morning while making the run of the blogs, I came across this general purpose post over at Argghhh! that had a link to a story in the Rocky Mountain News. The story is about the hardest job in the military. The Casualty Assistance Calls Officer. The worst job there is, the most stressful I can image, and the one person no one wants to ever see on their doorstep.
I think this 12 page article is the most important thing you will read today, if not for a long time.
Thank you to reporter Jim Sheeler for an excellent human interest story.
I was almost late for work because I could not stop reading.
On the drive in, I looked at the cover of the paper I had in the car. It included the special section containing this entire story.
Please take a little while to read the article. I might just keep subscribing to that paper now, and even look at it once in a while.
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November 16th, 2005 at 8:12 pm
I used to dispatch for highway patrol here, and thanked God on a few occasions that we had a simple rule after fatality accidents: NEVER break the news to someone on the phone, and if we did the notification a trooper would go to their house to do it. I had to talk around it several times when someone heard about an accident and called, and the troops absolutely hated having to do that. I cannot imagine doing it for your job every day…