Comments on: The most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen

By: Kragon

Kragon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:22:31 +0000

Hey Marc, I was going through you old blog entries when I came across this one. I must have missed it when you first posted it. It pretty much made me sick to my stomach. My wife’s father is in corrections up her in Michigan. And shit like that makes me scared for him.

I have no way of knowing the pain you felt and still feel. But I totally agree with you that this is one of the most disgusting things that I have seen. It’s just a sick and twisted way for cons to get sympathy….

I’m really at a lost for words man…

By: DarkIcon

DarkIcon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:19:54 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I think you guys know me well enough to know that I didn’t post this to fish for comments or sympathy, but I appreciate them nonetheless.

Just think; there is probably a story like mine (or much much worse) behind every one of those names.

And thanks for the link, nate. I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I can pretty much guarantee that picture came (indirectly) from my mom. That’s her favorite picture, although it’s of my brother in his 20’s (he was in his 30’s when he was killed). Perhaps I should write them and tell them that they have his middle name wrong. ;-)

By: nate

nate — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:40:28 +0000

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=759

I don’t know if the above link helps or not, but I hope it does.

I’d say more, but really don’t know what.

By: WeREwOLf

WeREwOLf — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:00:49 +0000

Thanks udgang for summing up what I was feeling earlier today when I read this, but didn’t know how to say. I don’t know how else to show solidarity here except to say that anyone who reads this sobering and deeply personal account of a horrible, senseless loss, and isn’t moved by it even a little, is just… not fucking human.

And on that note, it never ceases to amaze me that the people who show sympathy for the subhuman murderers sitting on death row, and who expect everyone else - even the families of their victims - to do the same, are too often unwilling to extend that same level of human respect and understanding to those whose lives are sundered by the violent loss of someone they loved.

(PS: As I type this, the footer reads “Powered by the friends I’ve never met.” Take from that what you will, man.)

By: udgang99

udgang99 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:41:31 +0000

Marc, I am so, so sorry to hear this story. I can’t even begin to understand how you and your family must have felt - and feel today.
I was aware that you had lost your brother to violence, but I never knew the full story until today.