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Sent: Tuesday,
November 07, 2000 11:58 AM
To:
Openletter@mail.kinkele.net
Subject: Scott
Our family had only
moved to Anacortes, from Southern California, just
four months prior
to your family's tragedy. We had hoped
that we were
leaving the
insanity, that was quite common there, behind.
We wept with your
family upon hearing about Scott's death...which shall
always be a stab in
the heart to all who love life, decency, and honor. My
mother-in-law once
said of Anacortes, "If this isn't heaven, it's the
next step to
it"...for Scott, Anacortes did become that step. Our
pastor, our
congregation, we all felt the loss...a young man whom anyone
could have been
proud to have known. When we reach
heaven, we shall
salute, embrace,
and thank Scott for the way he lived, and the wonderful
example he set for
our youth.
Scott, we didn't
know you personally, yet every time we drive past your
memorial on Hwy 20,
you have helped us to keep our journey here
reality
based...this world isn't our real home, yet
we desire that our
lives here, and that of our children, will make a
difference in life
of someone else, as did yours...our hope rests in the
knowledge that we
shall see your smile one day, and say our 'thank you',
face-to-face. To your family, we can only join in with the
thousands, to
say that we are so
saddened by your absence, and that our prayers for
them shall
continue.
Thank you for allowing
us to share our sorrow with you.