[Husker] Casey Martinez Talks to the LA Times (UNCLASSIFIED)

[David Strong]

I'm a little unclear with the criticism of Taylor in these notes.  He made
the phone call to his dad to let him know he was ok.  Broke a team rule... I
got it.  But you and I and everyone else watched his coach go completely
apeshit on him on the sideline during the game.  Taylor stood there, didn't
flinch, and took it without batting an eye.  He then came back in and played
the rest of the game on a bum leg.  He played almost half the season with
injury.  So where is the part about him being a wimp, not being able to man
up, doesn't refuse to give up, doesn't fight through the pain, doesn't take
it like a man?  I am missing something.  Is it because he missed the
treatment the following day?  No one here or anywhere else knows the details
of that so it can't be that.  What am I missing?

Dave

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Kathy Jackson <kj60028 at windstream.net>wrote:

> I have to agree.  Maybe because my Dad grew up on a ranch and was 20 years
> in the Army I see where you are coming from.  I teach high school kids, and
> it is becoming more common for a student who has difficulty with something
> to just give up and not try anymore.  Several years ago I had a student that
> frankly, was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but this student refused to
> give up.  She had a goal and whatever she had to do to achieve that goal she
> was going to do.  You gotta love a kid like that.
>
> Kathy Jackson
>
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Baker, Glenn R LTC MIL USA TRADOC wrote:
>
> > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> > Caveats: FOUO
> >
> > Taylor needs to man up and be a leader.  I see this in our military so
> > many times it freaking kills me where kids just don't man up and fight
> > through the pain or other issues.  I watched my father damn near cut his
> > foot off with a chainsaw.  He told me to go get a rag so he could stop
> > the bleeding and continue to saw wood.  I knew right then and there to
> > never be a wimp especially around my dad who grew up on a farm in
> > Antelope County Nebraska. Our society has become a nation of wimps.  The
> > wussification continues with no end in sight.  I watched my son
> > dislocate his shoulder from the stands in high school and I am very
> > close with him but I did not rush to his side and baby him his mother
> > was another story.  If you can't take an occasional tongue lashing then
> > you might be in the wrong business. I can't tell you how many times I
> > have gotten my ass chewed out.  Take it like a man, learn from it and
> > drive on.
> >
> > V/R
> >
> > LTC Glenn R. Baker
> > National Simulation Center
> > LESD Exercise Analyst
> > 410 Kearney Avenue- Building 45
> > Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
> > phone- 913-684-8185
> > fax- 913-684-8171
> > e-mail- glenn.baker at conus.army.mil
> >
>
>
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