Blog #7

Dennis Hart is a night time cabdriver with a job on the side, and he has a wife and two children. He wanted to be somebody, which I thought was honorable, and we know this when he says, "...I was trying to be somebody. I had these doubts about myself as to whether I had any courage in me at all or was I just gonna be a plant instead of a man" (237). This is why he wanted to serve in the army, or to be a soldier so he could serve a purpose for his country. Still, he was a cabdriver. He definitely knew what he believed in, and he was willing to fight for it, and I found this to be honorable. He believes that communists are not necessarily the enemy, that they are only obeying what they are taught, so it is the concept that is the real enemy. His morals are strong, and he is the kind of person that everyone should try to be; motivated, knowledgable, and he knows his place in the world. Tom Kearney was a patrolman and a detective, then detective sergeant and to traffic division. I like him, because he can see from the other side as well, being a policeman. But when he was asked about riots, and protests, he said, "They have every right to do so, although not to violate the law" (265). He can see why people protest, and he is a genuinely nice guy, but he happened to be a policeman and had to ban that sort of behavior due to his job. He has a good sense of right and wrong, naturally, and believes that people are intelligent enough to handle themselves. I agree with him on this, but I think people have the potential of being intelligent enough, though they do not always live up to it.