Joeshmoe,

Just because it happened to you doesnt make it right. That type of mentality is the reason why hazing is prevalent in our country in our high schools and college campuses. It does take an open mind to realize that there can be a better way. It is easier just to take a resignation type attitude and accept things the way they are. Where would our society be had John Hancock, Martin Luther King and the Wright brothers felt that way. I for one think that it's a travesty that after everything you went through, after you passed all your checkrides, you were not even given enough to feed your children. Somewhere in our society a false sense of nobility has been given to those who just barely scrape out a living. While I have all the respect in the world for those people (myself included in those people) I have just as much disdain for the powers that be which allow it to continue.