[Bad_Byte]

A brief story about an incident I witnessed first hand while serving in the Marines.

I had formed a very close nit shop of technicians. We worked together, fought together, partied together and shared a lot of good and bad times together. In short we had formed a bond like a group of people willing to fight and die togheter should be able to do. There was not a single drop of bad blood between us. We had the tightest group of people in the entire MAG in my opinion.

One night while celebrating the weekend, (as Marines are required to do) 4 of them got into a pretty bad car accident. They went to the hospital and one or two spent some days in intensive care. Once they got out and got back to work all was well and they were still buddies. No bad blood between them, they all realized it was an accident and they were all contributing factors in the accident.

Still, one of the young man's lawyers sued the other. Neither wanted the suit to happen it was simply the legal system doing its thing. If there is a dime to be made there will be a blood sucking, ambulance chasing lawyer there to take it.

I know there are lawyers on this board and I know there are good lawyers out there, they are necessary evils of our society. I just haven't found even one yet.