The mystic chords of memory……….when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln
Mr Petro and I have continued to correspond and I am reminded of why I found the Dickie Scruggs bashing so distasteful. Having lived the experience of knowing someone personally who made a terrible mistake and then had to pay the price with a prison sentence I know first hand the perpetrator is not the ony one who suffers.
As the anger subsides from that WLOX report I am reminded that Mr Petro mentioned in the report that he had a family, a wife and children who were also slabbed on August 29, 2005; and again on April 8, 2008. Regardless of ones take on the Youtube Video, if Mrs Petro is like my wife she trusts him implicitly to provide for the family; and now suffers along with her husband the consequences of the public reaction to the video. There are children too who most likely have suffered ridicule. They are innocent though their innocence has likely been shattered.
Just as I reconsidered my initial anger to Mr Petro last evening I hope our readers will similarly reconsider the collateral impact our collective anger had on those also impacted by Mr Petro’s misguided plea for help. I do not know the Petro’s personally but here in cyberspace at slabbed we stand in solidarity with the Petro family and hope their hurt is assuaged quickly.
The measure of a person’s character lies in their capacity to forgive. This post is my last on this topic though Nowdy tells me she also has thoughts to share.