James Kim, 1971-2006. How it’s affecting me.
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Like James I’m 35, we were born in 1971, we graduated in 1989, we have two daughters and a wife, we were raised in the Louisville, KY area and we spend our days helping others with technology issues. I didn’t know James personally, but I know we would have had a lot in common.
You’re going to hear the experts talk about knowing the terrain and the weather conditions. It doesn’t matter, after waiting for someone to find me for several days I would have left for help as well. The problem is I don’t think he should be dead. He’s smart, I’m smart, we can figure things out and make things work.
I don’t know why he died. But it certainly makes me think that my own intuition to go find help would have killed me as well. Would this stop me, knowing what I know now? No, I don’t think it would. I would stop waiting and take on the responsibility myself just like James did. Like James I’m not the type of person to wait for someone to do something for me, I will do it myself.
There are a lot of things I worry about in my life and one of the most important is making sure my wife and girls have a Husband and Father to grow up with. So now I learn doing exactly what I know I would have done would leave my girls Fatherless. He knowingly risked his life to help his family and died for it.
My wife has informed me that I’m required to stay with them and we will all die together, I am not allowed to leave. But I don’t know that I could.
What really gets me is that if he had stayed with them, they would all be safe now. But the problem is he did stay, for a week. How long are you suppose to wait?
People die all of the time, but for some reason his death has had a huge effect on me.
Kati, if you ever read this, I don’t think I could have stayed either, and I know you had your objections, so I’m very very sorry.
Update: I’ve been somewhat obsessed with this story and all the related stories. I’ve actually learned a lot about cold weather survival. I now have to say that I would stay with the car for many weeks before heading out.
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