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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: Worst News of the Year |
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SAN DIEGO -- A Korean immigrant whose wife, two young daughters and mother-in-law perished when a military jet crashed into his house says he doesn't blame the pilot who safely ejected...
"I don't have any hard feelings," Dong Yun Yoon, 37, told reporters near the rubble where his home once stood. "I know he did everything he could."
"Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident," Dong Yun Yoon said. "I know he is one of our treasured for the country."
Dong Yun Yoon, who left Korea in 1989 and became a U.S. citizen, wondered aloud how he would persevere after losing his family.
"Please tell me how to do it," he said, surrounded by his pastor, sister, brother and church members. "I don't know what to do..." |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that is a truly awful story.  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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My dad hid from me his advanced lung cancer and when he finally called me in June of this year and told me, lying that he had 3-9 months (I found out later that prognosis had been changed to one month the week before), asking me to come home, I said of course and made arrangements to fly later in the week, giving my hagwon a few days notice and me time to organize things for an unexpected extended trip back home. I bought the ticket for Friday the 13th then decided it'd be more appropriate to change it to Sunday, which was Father's day, an apt time to arrive back home to see my dad, and that would give one more day to my employer, win-win.
So, there I was, packing my bags saturday at noon (friday night back home) in prep to travel that afternoon to a motel close to the airport for my early sunday departure, when I get the phone call that my dad passed away minutes before.
I was stunned and speechless. Truly shocked.
What makes it even worse is that if I had taken the friday the 13th flight as i'd initially booked, then I would have arrived home an hour and a half before he died
(that is the worst news of the year) |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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The crash was about a 5 minute drive from my apartment, and right by the barber shop I go to. A bit surreal.
I can't even imagine being at work only to find out at the end of the day that my family is gone. Hopefully Mr. Yoon can find the strength within himself to move on from this tragedy. |
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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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My utmost respect for the way this man handled himself and I hope he is somehow able to get through such an awful tragedy.
I can only wonder how all those beef protesters must feel, realizing they were whipped up into such a childish frenzy, after seeing how this man is so stoically handling a true tragedy. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
My dad hid from me his advanced lung cancer and when he finally called me in June of this year and told me, lying that he had 3-9 months (I found out later that prognosis had been changed to one month the week before), asking me to come home, I said of course and made arrangements to fly later in the week, giving my hagwon a few days notice and me time to organize things for an unexpected extended trip back home. I bought the ticket for Friday the 13th then decided it'd be more appropriate to change it to Sunday, which was Father's day, an apt time to arrive back home to see my dad, and that would give one more day to my employer, win-win.
So, there I was, packing my bags saturday at noon (friday night back home) in prep to travel that afternoon to a motel close to the airport for my early sunday departure, when I get the phone call that my dad passed away minutes before.
I was stunned and speechless. Truly shocked.
What makes it even worse is that if I had taken the friday the 13th flight as i'd initially booked, then I would have arrived home an hour and a half before he died
(that is the worst news of the year) |
That's terrible. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
My dad hid from me his advanced lung cancer and when he finally called me in June of this year and told me, lying that he had 3-9 months (I found out later that prognosis had been changed to one month the week before), asking me to come home, I said of course and made arrangements to fly later in the week, giving my hagwon a few days notice and me time to organize things for an unexpected extended trip back home. I bought the ticket for Friday the 13th then decided it'd be more appropriate to change it to Sunday, which was Father's day, an apt time to arrive back home to see my dad, and that would give one more day to my employer, win-win.
So, there I was, packing my bags saturday at noon (friday night back home) in prep to travel that afternoon to a motel close to the airport for my early sunday departure, when I get the phone call that my dad passed away minutes before.
I was stunned and speechless. Truly shocked.
What makes it even worse is that if I had taken the friday the 13th flight as i'd initially booked, then I would have arrived home an hour and a half before he died
(that is the worst news of the year) |
My commisserations. He sounds rather like my dad, who also passed away of cancer, hiding from us as much as possible his true pain and suffering until his very last day. |
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