There was a fatal accident in our part of town overnight. It was on a 2-lane road we travel quite often. Our sheriff's department's website recaps all fatality reports (and homicides) that it handles, so out of curiosity I looked to see who the "complainant" was. The last name was Krc. The report also noted that the complainant's father was notified.
An unusual name (no vowels). I had a fraternity brother Tom with the same last name so I looked on a few sites to see if I could verify a connection. I did through our voter registration database (it showed an Andrew Krc residing about 2 miles from the accident site, with a Thomas also listed for the same address) and Facebook (the female listed on the voter registration site for that address has a Facebook account with "friendships" to 7 or 8 of my fraternity brothers. Confirmed, this was the son of my fraternity brother. I have not kept up with him but did reach out to a few other brothers to let them know.
I cannot and hope I never do fully know the pain of losing a child.
RIP Andrew Krc
A Parent's Worst Nightmare
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BackInTex
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A Parent's Worst Nightmare
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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SpacemanSpiff
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Re: A Parent's Worst Nightmare
May none of us ever have that happen to us.
When Judy died, I always felt worse for her mother than I did for myself or my stepsons. Not only had she lost her husband some years before, but Judy was the second of her three children to die as adults; her older brother died of an aneurysm about 15 years before.
And Lord knows I was always on some alert when Captain Son-Of-Spiff was in a war zone. Since I was neither PNOK or SNOK*, I might not hear right off the bat if something bad happened.
It's gotta suck big time.
*Military acronym -- Primary (Secondary) Next Of Kin, the folks who get the knock on the door by the guy in uniform to give you the bad news.
When Judy died, I always felt worse for her mother than I did for myself or my stepsons. Not only had she lost her husband some years before, but Judy was the second of her three children to die as adults; her older brother died of an aneurysm about 15 years before.
And Lord knows I was always on some alert when Captain Son-Of-Spiff was in a war zone. Since I was neither PNOK or SNOK*, I might not hear right off the bat if something bad happened.
It's gotta suck big time.
*Military acronym -- Primary (Secondary) Next Of Kin, the folks who get the knock on the door by the guy in uniform to give you the bad news.
"If you're dead, you don't have any freedoms at all." - Jason Isbell