Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

[The rains came at 3 a.m. Friday morning. Read was treated for exhaustion with an IV, but not wanting to leave the scene and go to a hospital when he thought he could still help, he slept for a few hours in a blown-out booth of a restaurant and regained just enough strength to return to sights no one should have to see.] Friday morning we found a lot of fire fighters' body parts, legs, fingers, ... They pulled a woman out right in front of me and we realized she had no head. There are just images that can never escape you. After four or five trips to the morgue carrying bags of body parts, I'd had enough.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

It is something that we concur with. We don't accept that it is a rite of passage that underage students should be out there drinking.

We needed this, it's a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you what you're about and shows you where you're trying to go. ... At certain points, this is a journey. And it was a hell of a journey today.