Re: [Paddlewise] Skills

From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:08:24 -0700
Peter Treby wrote:
> How do you comprehend your own mortality or anyone else's. What's a fair
>  risk? If you take a risk and get away with it, you're a hero. If you 
> fail and die, you were a reckless fool.

No one else decides that for you.  The hero/reckless fool categorization is 
a media creation, and is not based on much knowledge or competent information.

I would not think of Andrew as a fool or a hero, dead or alive.  He was 
just a guy doing something he was driven to do.  And, he died trying. 
Sometimes "stuff" happens.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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