My youngest brother, Eric Wischmeyer
Everything is so different when it hits so close to home. Only about 3 miles from our home, in Webster, NY an unknown gunman fired shots at firemen fighting a blaze.
I think of my brother, Eric, who takes such great pride in being a firefighter, my Dad, who also belongs to the HFFD, and my grandfather who died in the line of duty as a fireman so many years ago.
This trend has truly gone out of hand. We have lost two brave souls while two others are fighting in intensive care at Strong. What’s it going to take to make it all stop?
What are we learning about ourselves from this?
Our collective conciousness isn’t behaving so concious.
Gunmen havent targeted our most sacred like this before.
Children and firefighters.
A maternity ward next? Nuns?
Perhaps we could spread the sacred around a little to include the human, the grotesque the parts of us where sacred is less obvious but no less present.When it comes down to it, the gunman is as sacred as the six year old and as sacred as an honored firefighter.
Perhaps all human life is just as sacred.
Now this is way to complex.
Im sorry for all innvolved in this sad sad
I am so sorry, this world has really become a mess. I understand the depression that leads someone to take their own life and that in itself is sad, but to take another’s life is beyond what I can fathom. I will think of these men fighting for their lives this week.