Rand,
You sit at your computer, coffee cup at your side in the safety of your office and write nonsense about a guy who saved hundreds of lives. I can’t respect that.
Especially since in my humble opinion, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You sully the heroic act of a man who exemplifies courage under fire. Not commendable.
You see, this pilot you so flippantly try to tear down didn’t have a smooth place to land as you write.
Fact is, water landings are almost always injury filled or fatal. There’s nothing smooth about a water landing.
The smoothness and fearlessness of his voice in time of crisis is, for me, the tipoff that Sullenberger is of the stuff heroes are made.
For that calm in his voice is evidence of a calm to the man’s core; part of his very fibre. Sullenberger is the kind of guy, as his wife so aptly put it, you want on your side in a crisis. In the face of imminent catastrophe, he was rock solid.
I suppose you’d argue that Audie Murphy was simply doing his job when he grabbed the 50MM machine gun on that tank in 1944.
That Martin Luther King was simply doing his job, too.
That Claire Phillips was simply trying to save her husband.
That Jackie Robinson was just another talented baseball player.
Does Lenny Skutnik rise to your heroism bar?
Were the firefighters on 9/11 simply doing their job?
Rand, this column, though written by an obviously talented writer, has a thesis that deserves scorn and ridicule. Life is too short to waste your time and talent on drivel like this.
