Our family will be walking again in the Walk Like Madd Fundraiser to help raise funds to STOP DRUNK DRIVING from tragically affecting other families like ours and so many others.
My father was killed by a drunk driver while standing on the side of the road waiting for a car to pass. Unfortunately, my father was waiting in vain because the driver of the car was a drunk driver, ending the life of my father who was full of life at 74 years old. He was heading out to go to a help some friends with Barbershop music. His plan was to return home later in the day to celebrate my mother's birthday that day. Unfortunately, that did not happen. It still doesn't seem real. It doesn't seem that he could be gone. It seems like he was just here... So, that day, someone decided that they were fine to drive after drinking several beers...but the driver was not fine. And now, someone I love is dead. He ended my father's life and ended his (for the time being) as he sits in prison today(not long enough, in my opinion, but that's another story). Don't Drink and Drive! Don't risk it! Be responsible...I really wish this driver had thought of that on November 10th, 2008. If you would like to donate to our team: Honey's Bunch , please go to http://www.walklikemadd.org/ search: Gun Barrell City team: Honey's Bunch Thanks you in advance for knowing how important this is to our family.... PS: Also, I have another song of my dad singing and I am working on the video...hope to have that ready by the Walk Like Madd event!
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Thank you Kara..........thank you for this blogspot, and for the care you give it as an expression of your love for Daddy. I am overwhelmed by the loving support I have seen from our family and friends....... Love is bigger than Death........LOVE IS..... forever.
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Honey's Bunch came in as Top Team again this year, collecting $3775. We hope to do even better next year..so start now thinking of how!
Thank you all for donating, and for walking and spreading the word ! Sandy
The scream breaks from within my brain and out into the universe, brutally slicing everything in its way. Yet no one sees. No one understands, and there is no sound. It is only then that I realize it is contained within my soul. The scream is I, . . .and pain never rests.
10-26-11…………… how can it have been this long? Almost 3 years? I love you as I first loved you Honey, as I have always loved you, maybe only deeper. I pray, oh I pray that you remember me, and still in some small way, love me. . . .
There is starvation in Africa, wars in Iraq, a World Series in Texas……….and I can only think of you!!……
Remember Honey?...”there’s rioting in Africa, …La la la la la …..strife in Iraq……La la la la ………… the whole world is suffering……….., and Texas needs rain…………. La la la la la la …..
I can hear you singing that now……… how we laughed, yet how we ached for the world in the 60’s , and sorrowfully now it is all here again………….have we learned nothing?
YET--I know now that our love was truly as incredible as we knew it to be…we felt we were being too proud/ or too inflated…but it is true…that is the Love we Had, the love we share even today though separated by the thinnest veil……………. I remain... yours, Sandy
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