Uggh...expect to soon be unemployed!

[rebel100]

I'll keep you and your job situation in my thoughts and prayers. As to "prepping for an event that never happens," that brings back a 9/11 story. Something like one of the security people for a big financial company just knew that after the garage bomb in the World Trade building, there would be another attack some day. (By the way, yesterday was the anniversary of the first World Trade attack.) He would have emergency evacuation testing, and REALLY piss off all the high-earners on the 'phones by making them hang up and leave. Guess what? On 9/11, he got all of his folks out. The sad thing is, he went back to save others, and didn't survive that day.

I believe your thinking of Rick Rescolra...quite a guy! Survived the battle of the Ia Drang Valley (of Mel Gibson's movie "We Were Soldiers Once" fame), Came to the states earned a Bachelors, a Masters, and then a JD. Taught college and even wrote a textbook or two. He was reportedly known to sometimes calm his troops in battle by singing to them...reportedly did the same thing to the victims he shepherded out of the South Tower on 9/11. James Stewart wrote his biography "Heart of a Soldier"...should be required reading in some quarters. If my life as an EM was half as interesting I would fight to stay!