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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Boating accident account
	Date:	9/2/2008 8:10:18 AM

Wow, what a story.... Thanks to those that stopped to help and I think we need to give everyone responding to this nightmare scene a bit of a break. I can certainly understand the emotions of those that stopped to help and the great desire to get help for those who were injured. I suppose the EMT's have their protocols and were trying to follow them and the MP's were doing what they thought was right in what sounds to me like a chaotic and highly charged situation. None of us really know how we will react to something like this and in the "heat of the moment" we all have the capacity to make mistakes or react in a different way given less difficult circumstances. I think we all could take a deep breath and recognize that with all that is going on the people responding all meant well, even if they didn't exactly do as well as they could.

My take away from this is their are still a lot of good people in this world that are willing to help their fellow man. That's worth something, I think.