True forgiveness is hard, and the pilot was responsible for Yoon’s family’s deaths even if it wasn’t the pilot’s fault.
I’m not saying that Yoon is a hero in the sense that we should have parades and awards for him, but what he did and said was exemplary and the world would be a better place were more people so forgiving.
From the timeline as I understand it, he was already on approach to Miramar when he started having problems with the aircraft.
Has there been any further information on what actually happened? The reports I’d read sounded like an engine malfunction of some kind while he was descending into Miramar.
That’s a little too much forgiveness. Those men killed deliberately just because of the color of one’s skin. Forgive them if you must but petition for them to be released from prison so they can kill someone else? No. The family of the next victim may not be so forgiving of the men or the people who had them released. Forgiving people of crimes like this isn’t going to cure them.
It is heartwarming to see that even during the most difficult time imaginable that Yoon still has the capacity and inclination to show such compassion for another.
What’s so bright about it? Not all of us have access to an F-18.
It’s a bell curve thing, Dio. **Dong Yun Yoon ** is way over to the right edge of the “grown-up” curve.
He was out at sea doing carrier operations when one of his engines failed. Instead of trying to land on a carrier with one engine, he headed for the beach. He would have had to pass by North Island to get to Miramar. It was on final approach to Miramar that his remaining engine failed. If he had simply put the aircraft down on the first available airstrip four deaths have been avoided.
Religious right wing pro-military patriots, meet the Atheist left wing pacifist tree-huggers (*). None of you is going to agree on anything, but, oh! the hours of fun.
*If you don’t think that you entirely belong to one of these groups, you are doing it wrong. Pick a side.
I imagine he’ll feel pretty stupid if the investigation reveals that the pilot was an incompetent boob who perhaps could have avoided the houses had he not ejected so quickly.
Once the second engine failed, the hydraulics failed. Without hydraulics the aircraft is uncontrollable. Even so, witnesses indicated that the pilot stayed with the aircraft longer than was prudent. If there is blame to be assigned then it was in the choice of the neighborhood-locked Miramar instead of the surrounded-by-empty-water North Island airfield.
I agree that Mr. Yoon has an admirable amount of forgiveness. I don’t know if it rises to the level of heroic though.
I mean, it’s not as if he’s suing an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant.
Let’s keep some perspective here, people.
Hey, I just posted it- doesn’t mean I agree with it. I would have to dig pretty damned deep to find that kind of compassion if somebody stabbed my kid in the head until he was dead, for no good reason. So deep, in fact, that I might never get there…
Okay, I’m not a fighter jet pilot and never in my life have I ever come within 100 miles of being qualified to be one, so my prayers and support go to the young warrior who now must live with the knowledge that his ship crashed into a home and killed the very people he was training so hard to defend and protect. And my heart goes out entirely to the man who lost his family in that tragedy. Please note, the man’s English was “heavily accented.”
When was the last time you sacrificed for your freedom?