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To: Ilaine who wrote (17629)	2/12/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Blue; I'm not sure being a pilot or mariner is always conducive to making a person honest, but it may help them understand honesty. What could I do or say to the 16 year old who got his legs caught and wound up in the wire of the wench of who I had to pull out. My real feelings at the time were taht he would not live. Over and over again I told him he would be OK, he saw the bones sticking out of his pants legs before I could half as wrap them in a sheet, over and over I reassured him that now days they could fix them up like new, hell I knew he wouldn't live long enough for the chopper to arrive, should I have been honest ? Well he did live, ( but lost both legs ) , yet I don't think he holds it against me that I was lieing my as off at the time. ---------------------------- As for holding people to moral standards, myself I'm not sure I am qualified to place some ultimate moral judgment on another person. As a Captain I have had to make calls, but in doing so I tried to do it with out bringing morality into it. perhaps this explains my feelings. Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. :Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish Statesman (U.N. Sec.Gen. 1953-1961) ------------------ It's the position one assumes, and yes if or when the deck hand subverts things to where he is assuming the roll of Captain I will come down on him like a ton of bricks. Ultimately I'm from the old school, and adhere to the standard that the Captain is the last person off the sinking ship. ( there is one exception , if I give the order to abandon the ship and you for any reason "refuse" to do so I damm sure don't have to fight with you, you can drown and my conscious will be clear. ----------------- I ran a cod fish boat one time for a Korean company, they sent down some overseers, 2 extra men. I asked for two more survival suits. They didn't want to buy them for taht one trip..and wrangled with me trying to hedge their way out of it, So I said OK, I called the two men in and in front of the Big Boss made it clear, that if for any reason this boat was to sink those two men would be the ones without survival suits there would be no flipping of the coin, or consideration given to them just because they were company men, and I would see to it taht myself and the regular crew were the ones who had the suits if it push came to shove. They looked at me rather odd, and couldn't seem to believe what they were hearing, maybe they though by power they could somehow get the suits. ( but I never told them how I would see to it ) any way after they thought of it some they bought the suits . <G> Survival suits back then didn't come cheap like life jackets, but where we were fishing a life jacket wouldn't do you much good over 5 min. if that long. ---------------- I didn't do a great job raising my kids, hell I was gone most of the time, just the same I think I imprinted my value That God judges us differently just as most parents judge their children differently and we expect a little more from the ones with more talent, than ones with less talent. The older ones did not get to use the, well she did it to excuse, they were expected to set the better example. I left me a way out in my old age, <g> by telling them that we also expect the next generation when they come of age to be better than we were, as that was the worlds only hope. So as if they got prying into my past they could not use that as some excuse to make the same mistakes I did. I was really hard on my kids, maybe to hard but so far they have all survived and now have kids of their own, and a chance to mess them up. -------------- Jim