Patrick, the guy who drove his pickup truck through the house of Jeremy (CT) 2 weeks ago has apparently issued an apology on his myspace blog. Patrick has removed almost everything from his profile, including pictures, and any reference to drinking and such. But he left up his own blog.
After Markos posted a link to Patricks Myspace page I went over there and checked it out and wrote him a stern E-mail. It was just a line one comment, but I regret sending it. That didn't help anyone, especially Jeremy. You live and learn as they say...
So I was clearing out my inbox, and sent box, this evening and came across the message I sent to Patrick's and decided to go over to his site again. He had 2 blog postings about the incident that occurred. It was a heartfelt read, I must say. This guy messed up, but he knows it. Anyways read what he wrote and judge for yourself
Things that will haunt me.
This weekend one of the most life impacting things you could ever imagined happened to the person I would have least expected it to happen to, myself. Now I am dealing with the sinlge hardest things I have ever had to do. Putting the pieces of my life back together. But I know that my problems dont compare with the problems I caused for the people I have effected. People say that bad things happen to good people which is particularly true in this case because I cannot change the fact that what happened that night was a very bad thing for these good people....but what some people dont understand is also bad things happen to good people who do stupid things. and In my case the last part is true as well. I have recieved many comments through myspace telling me many things about myself but they arent me they only reflect one tragic night that I will be judged for for many years to come. In that regards I will adress some of the remarks they have posted. Yes. I am a idiot, a moron, and I screwed up tremendously this past weekend. Yes. I am lucky that noone was in the house that was hit, but more so they were lucky as well and for that I am grateful. No. I am not someone who joined the army because I failed at school, or that no colleges would take me, I was however not blessed with enough money or a scholarship to attend a school that would benefit me and I saw the Army as a way to gain an education and return later to a 4 year school and puursue a career outside the army.No. I am not a puppet of "King Georges money making war". I simply joined the army to serve my country and the president voted for by the United States wither liberal or conservative, republican or democrat or any other person that was appointed by the people. Now these are only a few oof the comments people have sent me and I know many people have been angered by the accident and have judged me harshly. I do not blame them for being angery for hitting there friends house or causing there friends problems but please dont assume to know who I am as a person and my reasons for joining the army and my life experiences. I have never done drugs before and this is my first arrest in my life and I will be affected by it for years to come. I only ask that you consider that I will suffer greatly for years to come financially and emotionally having to deal with the fact that could have injured/killed two very innocent people that night....In closing I wish to apologize to all parties involved the owners of the property, their friends, and anyone affected that night by my foolish actions and lack of common sense which took place this weekend.
I am going to refrain from comment here. I will also post Patricks last post which dosen't make much sense to me and maybe some fellow Kossacks can explain who this friend is he is talking about.
Why its Blank
I know Im probably going to get bashed another 1000 times for deleting everything on my site but I did it to protect the other people on this site after reviewing the multiple threads Ive read about the accident on the dailykos website It seems you all mean to make me into a monster and that anyone on my myspace page is not safe. 20 minutes ago my friend recieved an message over myspace about the incedent and was harrased about it. I expected to be punished for my actions and even hated by alot of people for it.There is nothing I can do to change that now. Except take my punishemnt like a man and except it. but now that people I truly care about that have nothing to do with this matter at all have been dragged into this I am deleting all on this page except I will still read your messages to see what other think of me but my friends are all gone and anyhting else on this site that can be used to make me out to be a monster. Again I apologize to my family, friends and msot of all to the family I effected. But for whoever it was that brought my friend into this I feel sorry for you that you need to seek out this sort of harrasment...talk bad about me if you wish I deserve my punishment..but not my friends they have done nothing but be themselves.
I certainly feel his pain, in a way. I am not perfect, and I have messed up in one capacity or another. I never drove a car into a house before, (Shit that is bad) but I have done some things that I wish I could just take back, call it a mulligan. But I am most confused with this gentleman's statement that people, other than himself, are being harassed. That is just weird, and not cool if true.
Apparently Patrick has been reading DailyKos and following the threads on this subject. I hope he reads the incredible multitude of threads that exist here and can grow, learn, and become a better member of our society. Isn't that what we all strive to achieve here? Through our collective knowledge educate people to see the true power inherent in this democracy?