What does this brother mean? I learned to understand shame after losing my brother on 9/11.

2015-09-10T23:11:58-04:00

This is a very inspirational article. This is about 911, which is tomorrow, and a brothers grief.
Army vet Joe Quinn reflects on losing his brother on Sept. 11 and overcoming the shame he carried afterward. On September 12th, I found myself on the wrong side of carrying my parents’ refrigerator down the stoop of their Brooklyn home. As several of us moved it down the stone stairs, the weight of the refrigerator fell on my shoulders and it eventually went crashing forward onto the sidewalk by the fire hydrant, where we kept things that needed to be taken away.

The refrigerator broke because there was too much food in it. When there’s tragedy in South Brooklyn, neighbors bring food. Tons of it. The old, yellow Frigidaire couldn’t handle all that pasta, so it broke down and needed to be taken out.

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I Learned To Understand Shame After Losing My Brother On 9/11

Army vet Joe Quinn reflects on losing his brother on Sept. 11 and overcoming the shame he carried afterward.

Response by CSM Carl Cunningham made Sep 10 at 2015 11:31 PM

2015-09-10T23:31:23-04:00

Powerful. Great share.

Response by Capt Mark Strobl made Sep 11 at 2015 1:33 AM

2015-09-11T01:33:19-04:00

The warriors' ethos is to stand the line between good and evil. And when that line is broken, we hold ourselves accountable: We review this as a failure. Because we cannot trade places with the fallen, we are left to ponder our own grief. Like that damned refrigerator, it becomes our burden: too heavy and too uncontrollable. The most feared moments are not contact with the enemy --rather, when we find ourselves in quiet reflection --for it is in that time, we are most vulnerable.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Sep 11 at 2015 3:53 PM

2015-09-11T15:53:36-04:00

He is mentally whipping himself for the loss of his brother.