Re: Until we\'re all safe....
I'm probably being seen as the killjoy and disgruntled old fool for questioning the wristbands on an effective scale, but not unlike the myriad of bumperstickers claiming support for the troops emblazened upon our vehicles, America for the first war of it's many will not sacrifice an increase of taxes, fuel rationing, foodstuff availability or volunteer on a scrap metal drive or a visit to comfort strangers recovering in the hospitals for combat injuries when the actual actions instead of in-kind brotherhood of devices and slogans will suffice instead.
Maybe we're lacking for reality when nurtured on imagry and cliches. I really don't know. Maybe years on the Cancer Society boards where fundraising was primary and patients were the last to experience any of it has tainted me somewhat. Non-profit Foundations that work off of sympathetic pleas yet offer administration payrolls equal to the oil industry, where many of the cancer problems start? It's very easy to sell smoke detectors to a family when the picture book the salesmen uses shows charred remains, descriptions of the stench of dead burned flesh. I would think a family head already knows full well the consequence of fire and life.
It's harder to learn and "practice" the art and necessity of safety first and much, much easier to just wear a wristband that implies we're into it, but isn't it more for those who see that band on our wirst instead of us simply being more safe, for our own good?
