[vundy33]

I'm not emotional over this case because of what the media has said or done...when I look at specific news stories that I'm really interested in, I read everything I can find, from big media to small, liberal to conservative. The reason this makes me emotional is because the life of a good 17 yrold boy who enjoyed and loved his life, with his entire life ahead of him, is dead...and because an apparent good man, Zimmerman, made a horrible mistake and is now going to have to live with it for the rest of his life. I'm sure he could care less about the 5-15 years he'll spend in jail, what is killing him I think is the fact that the tragedy happened.

It just could've been prevented...I get the same way when one of my young buddies is KIA'd, or I read about another young soldier, 18 or 19, with a a family already that has been KIA...they have their entire lives ahead of them, and it kills me to see it end so early and unfairly, and that more people (alot on this board) have NO damn clue how easy life can end, how easy it can all be over in the blink of an eye. It's like some of you take everything for granted, and that is what kills me.