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RedemptionSometimes it’s a long way back from the bottom. Sometimes you go anyway. 8 comments to Redemption |
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I know very few folks who, at the end of their lives, can look back and say, “I never did anything wrong.” CPAs maybe, or bridge toll attendants. Most of us have some ‘mea culpa’ moments. My instinct is to cut people some slack, in hopes that they might do the same for me.
Marianne
He paid his dues to society, as they say. He turned his life around, took responsiblity for his actions and has made of himself a better person.
I say he needs a little slack as well. You can’t erase what he did, but you don’t have to belabour the point.
Agreed. There are very few people in this world who can cast stones without being hypocritical. I’m surely not one of them.
I am impressed that this man has taken responsibility for his actions, paid his debt to society, and is doing what he can to make the best of his life. Quite a good example.
Good on him.
Did anyone notice, the Boston Herald mislabels him an “Iraq combat vet.” Yet he served in the ‘Stan…
Can you imagine how truly mad he must have been? I mean, scaling a 13 story building! Whatever it was, it pushed him hard.
I’m with the majority, for certain. He paid his price and made good. I’m with Marianne when it comes to her thoughts: let him who has no sin cast the first stone. Good for him!
Interesting that he can get waivers for a felony conviction and for a tumor.
If he’d had a misdemeanor domestic battery conviction, he’d be out of luck, since he would be prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm.
XBradTC ~ I wondered about that too. MacGyver had a heckuva time getting waivers for the few things for which he needed them. Maybe it was the tumor that allowed him to scale that 13-story building…
In the old days, a man who had turned his life around would have been considered the best example…how the world has changed!
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