Alone, Together...
Late night, car wreck, alcohol….children have lost a 27 & 28 year old father. A shiver crosses my heart and a sick feeling enters my gut. My father was 28, my father was out late, my father had been drinking, my father left three kids at home and my father was not driving. It stops me in my tracks and I fight back tears. I don’t know the individuals and am far from an expert on the subject. I only know that it is not 1963 and this time, I will not be the kid growing up fatherless. Deeply saddened, I also know that it is the beginning of a long and difficult journey every time any mother must explain to a child why daddy won’t be coming home
What was he thinking? How could he not be home? Why did he get in THAT car at THAT time? I have spent nearly 40 years trying to answer those questions and more. There is no answer that will fill the emptiness of what has happened. The community needs to stop any debate between right & wrong or could have & should have. The driver needs to know it was not his fault ... (read more)
