Thanks for all of your feedback.
Your comments have helped me to discern how to approach my friends who were tavelling with me.

I'll tell them, regardless of how stressful this may have been to them, they are greedy and serial complainers and will be missed by Southwest. Two of them, have a combined total of 1 flight in 14 yrs. Of those guys, one is in the hospital right now with heart complications from his MD, would you rather tell him, or shall I? NO THE LANDING LAST FRIDAY DIDN'T GIVE HIM THE BIG ONE, but he is nonetheless still there with tubes stuck in him.

I simply asked a question. If you want to slam an unknowing member, please refrain.

Thanks for your kind responses, for those of you that did.