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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2551380" data-attributes="member: 6390">Fine, you may not have stayed.I would have. When my wife's unit was attacked, I stayed at my post, did my job, and drove on, not knowing if she was alive or dead, and not finding out for hours. When the Chehalis River finally overflowed it's banks, flooding where my house was, I stayed at my post, and kept slinging sandbags, instead of abandoning my job and running off to save my family.Yes, I will state that you have to stand there and protect the city when your own child could be drowning. That's my personal belief, the same standard I held myself to and still do. While you make your own decisions on what you do, I still reserve the right to compare the actions to my own sense of duty.The cops in New Orleans failed thier duty, left thier posts, and abandoned those in need. I'm sure they will all have excuses that tug at the public's heart strings, and I'm sure that thier oath isn't taken as seriously by them as the military one was to me, but it won't excuse them in my book. They abandoned the public, and ceased protecting rescue services. They allowed looters and scumbags to take over sections of the city. The excuse put forward involved danger, nothing left to protect, it was useless, and all kinds of defeatest crap.If it was so terrible, why did many many more police stay on the job? Didn't they care about thier families? Didn't they have loved ones? Were they cold hearted ruthless monsters? They left for the same reason that many National Guardsmen and Active Duty desert when war breaks out. They're in it while it's easy, but as soon as it's dangerous, they're out of there.By your reasoning, whenever a disaster hits, those emergency services personell are within perfectly reasonable behavior in blowing off everyone else and running to see if thier family is OK. You listed 9-11 in your statement. What if everyone involved in emergency services had quit the force and ran home to protect thier family? What if every single member of emergency services abandoned thier duty in order to keep thier family safe during an eathquake or hurricane or flood or tornado? What is the use in having them around, when at the first sign of a situation when they will be desperately needed, it's OK for them to abandon thier duty.Duty. Honor. Courage. They are more than words to be thrown about when it is convient, when the job or mission is easy. The true test of a person is whether or not they stick when it's difficult.There. Is. No. Excuse. For. Deserting.</blockquote>

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