Real Men Do Cry

If you’re someone who never sheds a tear then you are either devoid of all emotion or holding it back so hard one day you will snap and find yourself on top of a water tower with a rifle.

And if you are someone who cries at the drop of a hat or while watching a summers eve commercial then you are someone who has had such a pampered and easy life you have never been hardened to the realities of it.

I honestly cannot remember when I ever cried other than when I was a child. But I shed a tear from time to time. Usually over something that shows loyalty and devotion. Commitment to duty.

When my dogs had to be put down or at the end of the movie Taps when Cruise runs in to stop Penn and gets killed in the process. You know, manly shit.
 
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Chdamn said:
When my dogs had to be put down or at the end of the movie Taps when Cruise runs in to stop Penn and gets killed in the process. You know, manly shit.
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When I had to take this little guy to the vet, put him on the stainless table and hold him while his heart pounded until he calmed down and relaxed in my hands, and then to feel his head flop and go heavy as the life left him, well, even saying this gets to me. For the longest time, he wanted nothing to do with me, or so he acted. Until the day I had to say goodbye to our other one at the time who was very much mine. I was sitting on the bed, feeling sad, and he came upstairs, and started loving on me.

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Chdamn said:
If you’re someone who never sheds a tear then you are either devoid of all emotion or holding it back so hard one day you will snap and find yourself on top of a water tower with a rifle.

And if you are someone who cries at the drop of a hat or while watching a summers eve commercial then you are someone who has had such a pampered and easy life you have never been hardened to the realities of it.

I honestly cannot remember when I ever cried other than when I was a child. But I shed a tear from time to time. Usually over something that shows loyalty and devotion. Commitment to duty.

When my dogs had to be put down or at the end of the movie Taps when Cruise runs in to stop Penn and gets killed in the process. You know, manly shit.
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Last time I really cried was a little over ten years ago when my mom passed away. Sometimes I get upset an sweat a little. I don't think I'll cry when my Dad goes, moms are just different.
 
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Last time I really cried was a little over ten years ago when my mom passed away. Sometimes I get upset an sweat a little. I don't think I'll cry when my Dad goes, moms are just different.
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Just the opposite for me. Dad was my best friend and even as I write this I get a little misty eyed.
 
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Just the opposite for me. Dad was my best friend and even as I write this I get a little misty eyed.
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Don't get me wrong dad is special too. But as a kid when you got hurt it was either a big hug from mom or rub some dirt on it from dad. I never got to spend a lot of time with my dad. For the last ten years I've talked to him almost everyday. Until he got married and he dropped of them face of the earth. Lol
 
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Well, I cried like a baby when my father died; he was my best friend. And my cat Shadow.. well.. there'll never be another like him, I get emotional thinking about him. Yeah, real men can and do cry...
 
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Manly duty stuff, patriotism, etc.

Pets crossing the rainbow bridge

Videos of dogs reuniting with servicemen after deployment

8 year old Jackie Evancho's voice singing opera

predicting.... when my dad goes...
 
since 2011 when dad passed in July and a good buddy lost a 6 year old son in October.
The water works have slowed down, but they will leak some.

Lost a coworker this year, told the bossman that just because I haven't shed a tear doesn't mean it doesn't bother me. It just takes a lot more now.
 
Little while back I went through a three or four year stretch where it seemed like I was always crying, either with people or over them.
Best friend lost his mom, then he lost his sister, then we lost him. My wife lost her mom and I lost my dad and my stepdad both. Two combat related deaths and one PTSD related suicide in my Reserve Batallion.

Thank the Lord in Heaven I havent had a reason to cry in a couple of years now
 
FWIW, I have definitely found it easier to shed a tear as I have aged.

I am not sure if it's a matter of the the fact that I have zero desire to hide my emotions anymore. When I was a MSGT with 278 younger Marines working for me it seemed important to maintain an stoic controlled attitude at all times. I need not present that demeanor around my family.

EDIT: I used to ride with a group called the Patriot Guard for years and we provided motorcycle escorts for Veteran's funerals and arranged for color guards and such for many funerals in Wisconsin and Illinois. Anyway, a specific graveside service in eastern
Wisconsin, along the lake, on a freezing cold day had just began. The Butler happened to be exceptional and the snowbp .began. Since that day I will NEVER again hear TAPS without waterworks.!
 
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Put yourself in my wife shoes.

She has to help pets pass over rainbow bridge about every other day, sometimes twice a day, most of the time with tears in her eyes . Then has to walk into the next room with a smile and a upbeat attitude.

Not a wonder veterinarians have a high suicide rate...


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I have my man card and leak like niagara falls at times. Its a lil embarassing at times but necessary, at least for me. I reckon we are all wired a little different.
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