Fallen heroes.

"You say your every day
Is a bad dream that keeps repeatin'
Maybe you should've thought about that
When you were cheatin'."

We all have good days and bad days; it's when the bad days out number the good ones is when you have to step back and "read the landscape." 

Fortunately or unfortunately, our society looks for reasons as to why things happen. There is nothing wrong with doing this, it's just sometimes you may not like what you learn. It could be out of your control or as my friends like to say, "It's Karma and believe me, when it comes back to the other person, they will wish they hadn't started it." I think this is a little too deep for me but it makes sense.

It seems recently there has been a lot of "karma" in the news. There are people who are getting their due justice and others who are getting the positive outcome they deserve. Some are famous people---most likely if they are in the news, whether they want to be famous or not, they are now. Then there are those who take the huge steps out of the shadows and do something that I hope we would all do if placed in that position.

One of the most devastating occurrences of recent memory were the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On the scale of horrific moments this would rank very high; unfortunately, when the NFL helmets are placed into the lockers after this coming weekend, many had the initials, "S.H.E.S." on the backs of them, the reminder will suddenly be out of the minds of the masses and right back into the community where this moment of horror took place.

But enough about the bad moments that make the news---let's focus on the good stuff for a moment. 

Probably one of the best things about the "connected world" we live in has to do with the instant nature of sharing. It might be a video of two toddlers laughing and talking to one another in gibberish, a special memory that had long been lost or forgotten suddenly found, or virtually anything that has taken a special moment from the mouths of two people to millions of people who are experiencing it with them thanks to social media. That is where technology works and why we live in times that are so different than what I personally grew up in.

So where does this lead us?

This month we witnessed two very different news reports---one was a person coming clean, sort of, and the other was about someone who was always a man of "clean" character. Since the New Year we saw heroes take one of two directions in lift---Stan "The Man" Musial, who many didn't even know outside of St. Louis, passed away. While Lance Armstrong came out and admitted he was living a lie. Unfortunately, just like timely news of the day, the Lance Armstrong story will stay around as long as anyone finds it to be of interest, and the death of a baseball icon will fade into the memories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and others. 

The photo above was taken at a bike race a few years ago. I remember hearing, as I was photographing, "Radio Shack is one of the sponsors of Lance Armstrong team."  I thought that was really a picture worth taking; as I write today's "Snap. Shot." I realize that the rider with the red jersey is probably burning the memories, and the jersey, he was once so proud of wearing---in the scheme of things, I would rather wear the number 6 of another red jersey---that of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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