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Originally Posted by Libby K
I'd like to share a horror story - and yeah, this is personal. Deal with it.
I was down on the floor, as I was speaking during the ceremony. So I got to see quite a few airplanes.
Now, I get ripping up your programs and making airplanes, because you clearly NEED to throw those airplanes since they're so VITALLY important to the mission of FIRST...
...but did you guys really have to use the page that was my father's tribute?
My father - Dean's older brother? He was a huge part of the FIRST community. He died this September, and the program page with his face and his story should have been at least somewhat respected and not used for that purpose. None of the things FIRST works so hard to create should have been, but that one is very personal to me. I was absolutely horrified.
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How could this possibly keep going for 3 pages after that horrific story? And even then, when people are justifying it by saying that "Oh, well, janitors and whatnot. I'm keeping them in a job right now, so you should back off telling me to not throw a paper airplane."
I'd be all for a designated paper airplane contest at a specific location with no chance of someone downrange of the flyer, USING DESIGNATED PAPER, but on Einstein? Really? Is it necessary? It's hard to watch the match ahead of me when I'm afraid of being nailed from behind me. I came to St. Louis to actually watch the FIRST Championship, not for a chance to toss a paper airplane from an upper balcony.