When was the last time you cried?

[OKDem08]

[Suich]

1. Tonight, when I was watching Dateline.

It was the story of the battle of Wanat, in Afghanistan. Nine members of Chosen Company were killed two weeks before they were scheduled to come home. The youngest was 20 years old. Some of the parents got together and tried to get some answers from the military about what happened.

Very sad. It made me cry.

[grasswire]

2. today

I watched a WW2 movie about the rescue of 500 POWs held in a Japanese camp in the Philippines. The brutality and inhumanity were just so shocking -- even though I have known about it for a long time. The Japanese concept of "bushido" was so ugly. So evil.

Prior to that, I cried watching CNN the other night when the father of a boy named Lance, who is missing in the tornado, talked so openly of his love for his son and his quest to find him.

[RSillsbee]

25. What you saw was NOT Bushido

Bushi Do was a system of moral principles that a warrior was expected to adhere to. It was comprised of the seven virtues of Rectitude,Courage,Benevolence,Respect,Honesty,Honor,and Loyalty. What you saw in that movie was a militaristic perversion

[HopeHoops]

3. Several times today - Memorial day articles in the paper and threads on DU.

It is hard not to.

[blueamy66]

4. 2 minutes ago

when I saw a pic of Katlyn Wilkins trying to secure an American flag to what was left of a tree in Joplin

[Zephie]

5. Last tuesday

[Inchworm]

6. A few minutes ago.. listening to Traveling Soldier

by Dixie Chicks.

:hug:

[OKDem08]

20. what a coincidence...

that was what motivated me to make this post

[graywarrior]

7. Today, wishing my WWII paratrooper dad was here for Memorial Day

[bluesbassman]

8. January 6th.

Funeral for the oldest teenage son of a family we're very close to.

[Iggo]

9. Glee.

"Just 10 more seconds..."

[Bucky]

10. I am a rock. I am an island. None of your petty human events effect me.

Dammit, I want you to leave me alone now.

[Iggo]

11. LOL...that was my theme song when I was a kid. (n/t)

[one_voice]

12. This morning when I tried my shorts...

on--from last summer--and they didn't fit. I knew I'd gained some weight when I quit smoking--back in Sept. but damn...so it's onto a strict diet for me! Some days I hate being me.. x( :cry:

[RSillsbee]

26. You can lose weight

you can't regrow lungs.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

13. Yesterday, when I was cutting onions for my spaghetti sauce. nt

[nolabear]

14. Oh, about two hours ago. I'm a human spigot.

Since I'm also a therapist I've had to get Zen with it. People often move me to tears and I just say "Your story is so compelling it's moved me to tears."

I'm a mess in movie theaters and plays and operas and concerts.

I never made it through a single children's program at my sons' school.

Interestingly I don't cry for me much, or when there's an emergency. Then I'm all business and gettin' it done.

Show me a sweet animal story, though...

[Kali]

30. are you my long-lost twin or something?

human spigot - good description, hell I cry when I laugh (as did my Mom)

[rbnyc]

15. Today

My husband and son are swimming at grandma and grandpa's. I wanted time alone. I've been singing and playing guitar in the back yard. I decided to re-learn an old grateful dead song I used to play in college, Black Peter. I started crying when I got to the part "The people might know, but the people don't care..."

Black Peter

All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Beauneu from Saint Angel
say "the weather down here so fine"

Just then the wind
came squalling through the door
but who can
the weather command?
Just want to have
a little peace to die
and a friend or two
I love at hand

Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up
gonna roll back down
One more day
I find myself alive
tomorrow
maybe go
beneath the ground

See here how everything
lead up to this day
and it's just like
any other day
that's ever been
Sun goin up
and then the
sun it goin down
Shine through my window and
my friends they come around
come around
come around

People may know but
the people don't care
that a man could be
as poor as me...
"Take a look at poor Peter
he's lyin in pain
now let's go run
and see"

Run and see
hey, hey,
run and see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFEomvkAPQ

[marzipanni]

16. After seeing this~

If you are a facebook user, please look up "Dog Bless You", and 'like' it, so more returning vets suffering from PTSD can have a dog from P2V (Pets to Vets)
http://p2v.org/

[femmocrat]

17. Can't remember.

I almost never cry.

[ChoralScholar]

18. When I was watching "The Patriot"

and the little girl says "Papa, I'll say anything you want, just please don't go..."

Mel Gibson is a real DA, but I like that movie. (even if his character is an 18th century Martin Riggs)

[Lindsey]

19. I'm crying now. I'm watching "Since You Went Away" on TCM and

they just found out Bill died. Why Hitler, why bin Laden?:cry:

[vi5]

21. Last night reading to my son...

The Giving Tree, which is sad enough in it's own right. But this copy was given to him by his physical therapist when he turned 3 and started getting therapy at school.

Kids been through medical hell in his 5 years and come out the other side a ridiculously well adjusted, normal kid for his age. And the note this woman wrote to him on the front flap of the book, coupled with how far he's come, and knowing how much of it was helped along by her and how hard she worked for him........yeah, I lost it.

[SteppingRazor]

22. We talking just a lump in the throat or outright sobbing?

I mean, I haven't really broken down and cried since my grandfather died four or five years ago. On the other hand, I can get a little choked up just turning on the infant monitor and watching my son sleeping.

[progressoid]

23. A few minutes ago.

Thinking about my brother. God I miss him.

[RSillsbee]

24. 2 weeks ago when my dog died

I balled like a baby

[Bombero1956]

27. I feel like crying now

I'm going through a bout of depression right now. It happened back during the holidays and it went away after I started taking meds for it. Now its back and I started taking them again. Not a good feeling.

[Amaril]

28. Yesterday

Watching a flash mob video on youtube. Watching dance will often move me to tears -- something about the physical expression of emotion that just gets me, "right here" (pointing at heart).....you know? This time it wasn't so much the dancing itself that got me -- it was was the looks on the faces of the spectators. A group of strangers stopped in their tracks; sharing a moment of joy. It was beautiful.

[Deep13]

29. Two years ago...

...when I was suffering from serious depression. I got a little teary when my great grandmother died last year, but not out-right crying.

[guitar man]

31. The last time I can remember was

Last August, the day this picture was taken. It was her first day of school, I was at work and my wife snapped this picture and sent it to me...all of a sudden she looked so grown up and it seemed like she wasn't my little baby anymore and....now seeing it again I think I'm about to start crying all over..... just look what you've gone and done! :spank:



:P

[Cannikin]

32. A few times a week...waiting to find out for certain that a loved one is terminal.

So I know more tears are on the way.