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When was the last time you cried?

mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
I had a very bad day yesterday. We had to give our family dog, a 2 1/2 year old blue tick hound, to a friend and his family. We have a three month old boy now, and the dog was just getting to be to much to handle. The dog has scratched the baby, and accidentally jumped on the baby while my wife was holding him. I think the dog was jealous. We had been thinking of getting rid of the dog for a while now, but I wasn't sure we would do it. I was fine until after my friend left with her, and my wife started crying. I know it was the right thing to do, but I will admit, my eye started leaking. I know he and his family will be good to her, I don't know what I am worried about. Thanks, had to vent.

Do not mistake my kindness for weakness.

IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
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  • Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    9/11/01

    "If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last night. My sister put her 10yr old Rotteweiller to sleep. I"m not much of a dog person but she was the best dog anyone could have. A very unique personality. Anyone who doesn't like Rots would very likely change their mind after being around her. My sister even has a 2yr girl that loved the dog.
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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hell, I'm a ninny, I was reading "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" last night and I teared up. SaxonPig, I've got a lab/shepard...wonderful dog...I wish you the best, it's a hard deal.
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    I cant remember the last time I did.

    I didnt on 9/11. I just got mad as hell, drove my car home early from school (and gassed it up on the way), loaded and oiled every gun in the house, and packed my bags for the possibility of a long trip.

    Didnt happen, but I spent four hours cursing the very existance of the Palestinians, being that's who I figured was responsible.

    Turns out I was just a very small step from the truth.
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    9-11-01 at least twice.
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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    July 7th 1995. I got to hold my grandson for the first time. He was born 3 months premature and I was not able to hold him for a long time. My wife, his gradmother, had died a little over a year before. She was 49. She never knew her daughter was pregnant. To top it off, it was a high risk pregnancy, and we lost his twin brother. What a swing of emotions that was. A nurse took my picture, and I guess luckily I look pretty composed. But I'll never forget that moment, and the emotions, as long as I live.

    ps, Kyle is a wonderful, bright, intelligent 7 year old and the joy of my life.

    Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was when my parents got a divorce, after 35 years of marriage.

    "No dear, this isn't a new gun,,I've had this one for quite a long time,,honest,,"
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hell my rotty will be 9 this summer and I get choked up thinking about the inevitable, probably in 3-4 more years.

    A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    October 27 1993 at my Father-in-Laws funeral.

    AlleninAlaska aglore@gci.net

    How would you rather die, 10,000 foot pounds of muzzle energy in the BUTT or a sharp knife in the HEART?
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    June 13 1998. After I was stopped by the police in Cleveland Oh and informed I had an emergency at home, I made several calls and found out my son had been in an accident. I had a pretty emotional ride to Johnstown PA but never cried. When I walked into Conemaugh Trauma Center and seen my son who was 8 years old at the time laying in a bed all busted up and on lifesupport, I broke down. Then when I learned how it happened and that the guy that hit him was drunk, those tears became tears of rage. I still get emotional thinking about seeing him in that hospital bed helpless and hurt.

    Next time was 9/11 when the reality hit me about the people who died.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think McNeely gets the award for saddest post in recent memory. I am sad for the loses all of us have had!
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    9/20/2001 when I was listening to "Dubya's" speech. They were, however, tears of pride.

    Again in December when our 15 year old Basset/Beagle died. Beagle body and face. Basset legs and ears. Sweetest dog that ever walked.

    Mudge the mooshy

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!

    Edited by - mudge on 05/17/2002 16:21:55
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 7 months ago when I was going through a rough time emotionally
    after having taken a stand on a moral issue. I didn't really know how many friends I actually had until they phoned me, wrote me letters, and approached me in public. I was a whimpering sobbing mess but I serve a great God and he used those tears to strengthen me.
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  • lazywallruslazywallrus Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe Im just a Bigsofty. But I get misty when I look at my beautiful wife and two wonderful boys and think about how life would be with out them...

    Before them I only cried when I chopped onions.
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  • ADfreeADfree Member Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last night. The cat dug his claws into a sensitive area.
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    OUCH!
    I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
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  • imadorkimadork Member Posts: 147 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was reading about the Manson murders ( http://www.crimelibrary.com/manson/mansonmain.htm ), which occurred August 1969 in Beverly Hills. The story is gut-wrenching because here's this beautiful, young, pregnant woman and her friends killed for no reason but to make a political statement. The chilling way in which the killers described what they said and did to the victims, and the fact that 26 year-old Sharon Tate was an apparently kind, gentle, naive young woman of great beauty and promise, made me sad. I've been to the place-- the original house was demolished and the lot renumbered, and the new house is still vacant. What a waste.

    Edited by - imadork on 05/17/2002 19:32:17
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  • FUBARFUBAR Member Posts: 175 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When my Grandmother died. She was the family focal point.

    Guns! Guns! Guns!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    9/12/01--When I found out that my buddy wasn't working security at the World Trade Center on 9/11 because he had that day off.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • Dyer_MakerDyer_Maker Member Posts: 1,018 ✭
    edited November -1
    Ever time I look in My wifes Eyes and I can see she wished she never married me.
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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.comcaptkirk3@dslextreme.com Member Posts: 3,804
    edited November -1
    A week ago today..When I held my New Born Grandson in My Arms...I was so proud of this Young Man, His Parents and Big Sister that I was all mush!...And you all thought Captain Kirk was a Big Ole Meany...

    Captain Kirk, Tech Staff
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last Tuesday.I buried my fifteen year old Poodle.She was blind,And deaf for the last year,But got around the house O.K..She went in to kidney falure,And died in my arms.She was my fishing buddy.She only weiged six pounds,But bit every bass I landed.She is buried right beside the pond bank.
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  • bwabwa Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the best threads I've seen on this forum. Emotion is part of the image of God in us.

    harley: I think we're brothers.
    Dyer: Never give up. Lay down your life for her and win her over.
    All the dog lovers: I can't relate, but your attachment to them sure is fascinating.

    And me? -You guys are all tougher than I am. The mere thought of something sentimental, moving, etc. has me searching for a Kleenex.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had to put my family dog down this winter. She was around for 15 good years. Sad part is she probably would have been around longer had the person that was walking past my driveway, not splintered her shoulder with a big thick walking stick I have seen them carry. I can not prove anything but I KNOW that is what happened.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    9-11,several times,the first time I saw "The Green Mile",and when the oldest dog died.Oh yeah,and when the Dodgers left Brooklyn...just kidding about the Dodgers.

    Only the strong survive...well maybe also some weak ones with lots of ammo!
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yesterday-
    had a 6-hr. talk with my little bro- he leaves tomorrow a.m. for the portland v.a. climic to begin 6 wks of radiation therapy(they allready pulled all his teeth).
    he told me how he allready had his will made out & all.
    hes taking it a helluva lot better than i am.
    (more tears)
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Barto,Your six hour talk may have a lot to do with how he is taking it.Both of you will be in my prayers.
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  • mousemouse Member Posts: 3,624
    edited November -1
    I love dogs too. Like many of you. My border collie layed down and died in his favorite spot last winter. He was 15 yrs old. Also a month later our chijuajua Honey Bunny who we'd had since she could fit into a wine glass was put down lovingly by my husband. She was gray, nearly blind and hurting all the time. Had lost many of her teeth. She still acted like a pup thou.

    I cry every time one of my patients die. I cry every time I read about the Sudan and the atrocities happening there.
    I worked in pediatrics for 5 yrs. and had to transfer that area after depression of loosing so many to cancers. I'm 48 and been in nursing since 1970 as a sophomore in high school. First job was as a nurse aide on a rehabilitation floor. I was taking care of teens, and young men with paralysis from swimming and football injurys.
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  • BoyWonderBoyWonder Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Less than 3 weeks ago as I held my new daughter for the first time. I was holding hands with my wife and I was keeping together until a nurse asked me what her name was...I couldn't answer. I was thinking about all the things that had happened in the world in the past 6 months and praying that I could fix things so she would grow up in a better place...

    Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.-Demosthenes
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Two days ago, at a wake for a friend of mine for over 30 years,him, his wife, his daughter, and his mother were killed in a terrible traffic accident after coming from visiting his only surviving daughter on Mothers Day. It was a very sad experience for all who attended the wake, as well as those that didn't. Very emotional indeed.
    Gino



    Edited by - bullelk on 05/18/2002 16:02:49
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Barto,
    I hope everything turns out well for your brother. I will say a prayer for him ,as I think as many of us will. God Bless.
    Gino
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WHEN MY GREAT GREANDMOTHER DIED.AND A FEW TEARS OF RAGE ON 9/11.THINK IT IS SILLYU IF YOU WANT BUT WHEN MICHEAL WALTRIP SPOKE THE MONDAY AFTER DALE EARNHARDT DIED I SHED A FEW ALSO

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    thanks guys-
    the best people in the world ARE on this forum!
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    barto,
    Could I have a name and address to send him a card, if you don't mind.
    Thanks,
    Gino



    Edited by - bullelk on 05/19/2002 17:41:43
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    bullelk-
    as far as i can tell his address will be
    jack d. barton
    c/o veterans hospital
    portland, oregon

    dont know the zip code but im sure it'll get to him.
    thanx a bunch
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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