"Jcarr" (jcarr)
06/15/2015 at 11:03 • Filed to: None
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
06/15/2015 at 11:03 • Filed to: None | 9
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Some of you may have seen my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . For those of you who didn’t, a family from our church was hit head-on near Tallahasse, FL by a young man in an F-250 who had lost control in the rain and crossed the median. The father and two of the kids were killed, the 3rd child had injuries to both arms, but will recover fully and the mother was unharmed.
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The parents of both the mother and father left immediately from our hometown in NE Iowa and drove straight through (~27hrs) to FL to be with them.
Yesterday the young girl was released from the hospital and they were cleared to return home to Iowa. Over the weekend someone from our congregation donated the money for all of them to fly home so they wouldn’t have to drive.
Around the same time that they were being released, 4 people from our church community left here to drive straight through to FL, pick up the car, and drive straight back, a round trip of over 50 hours.
From what I’ve seen around here in the last year and half, I know many of you Oppos wouldn’t hesitate to do the same thing if it happened in your community.
The world we live in may be an awful, broken place, but there are still many, many, good people in it.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Jcarr
06/15/2015 at 11:09 |
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Wow, man, horrible story! I can’t imagine what the mom and surviving kid will have to go through, but it sounds like you have a great church family! My prayers are with everyone.
E92M3
> Jcarr
06/15/2015 at 14:12 |
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There’s still some good people out there. Just 2 weeks ago my fuel pump died and I was stuck in the middle of an intersection. At first there were people honking and a couple even yelled obscenities out their window when they drove by. As if I was just parked there to just to ruin their day. Before I knew it 3 hispanic men stopped and helped push it into a nearby parking lot. They didn’t speak any english, but I thanked them the best I could. I was so grateful they took 5 mins to help me out. I felt guilty afterwards for passing the dozens of people I’ve seen broken down on the side of the road in the last couple of years. I’m going to make an effort to help whoever I can in the future in similar situations. I can’t even imagine what that mother is going thru.