[Cobra Mgr]

I get what you're saying. I also understand how traumatic the remainder of my life would be if I stood outside & watched my parents burn to death.

I looked at my dad in the hospital & could tell the end was near & was trying to find the courage to say "I love you" & top thank him for all he did in raising me. We never said that to each other. False machismo. A family friend came in the hospital room & I left to let them talk, thinking I would tell him how I felt when I got off my shift that night. He died before my shift ended.

I know he knows I loved him. I know he loved me. But for the last 24 years this June I have been beating myself up for not having the stupid balls to just say 3 frikkin' words. And it will still be with me the next 24. I can't even type this stupid post w/o crying.

So I get why in that moment he put himself at risk. (Not for a dog). But for his parents, yeah. You don't think. Just act.