Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Driving Drunk Continues

I first would like to start off with a letter that I wrote and sent out to many people.
You can also visit the site that I mentioned. Drunk driving will continue sorry to say. Because of the simple fact that it makes money for people and organizations. The video that I hope that you will watch runs 10 minutes, and it will tell you how you can stop that repeat offender of drunk driving. There is no magic involved but it depends solely on you. The other site listed on the bottom is my son-in-laws interview with a news team. Below is my letter
I can only imagine what my only grand-daughter would grow up to be or do.
I can only imagine hearing her laugh, or sing one of her favorite songs.
I can only imagine on how it felt when she would wrap those little arms around me.
I can only imagine to hear that voice saying” Pop I’ am coming up.”
I can only imagine seeing that little girl swinging on a swing wanting to go higher.
I can only imagine watching her catching butterflies and releasing them.
I can only imagine as she looked out our window in our house and turning to exclaim to her grandmother. “Look Grammy it’s a Tomato!” ( Tornado )
I can only imagine a little girl that looked at strangers, and would talk to them, and then turn away being instant friends.
I can only imagine a little girl that knew of no evil or no bad in this world.
I can only imagine on what she would be like Today?
Yes I can only imagine these things, because my only grand-daughter lies in a grave, in Lakeview Cemetery, near Steinbach Corners, in Susquehanna County.
She had died back on March 17th 2006 at or around 7:00 p.m. Saint Patrick’s Day.
Not a mark on her except for a badly mangled leg, as her grandmother held her on a lonely bank on a country road.
Minutes before there was singing and happiness inside the van as it was beginning to turn into Pop Larry’s ( The Other Grand-father’s  ) churches driveway, where he is pastor.
Tonight is one of the many churches outreach programs for children in the area called A.W.A.N.A.
Tonight is the only night that she can have fun, because tomorrow she has to go back home to Millport, New York with her mother and brothers.
Back on that lonely bank waiting for help to arrive, my wife heard the only words coming from a coherent and alive and awake grand-daughter (Megan Madeline Thomas ) It is her final words, and something that no one would ever hear coming from that voice again here on earth.
“Grammy I Can Not Breathe!”
Megan did go home that night but not with her family that love and miss her day in and day out.
Megan went home to be with her Lord.
Megan Madeline Thomas born February 10th 2001 and died March 17th 2006 so the headstone on that grave says.
Megan Madeline Thomas just turned 5 years of age back in 2006.
What this grave stone does not tell you is how this person died, just like many others in this row.
The head stone like many others tells of nothing, except for a few poems or words that once were said a long time ago.
No one that’s living wants to speak of that dead person. Like many mother’s say, “It’s like I never had them or they were never conceived!”
We tend to push away the thought of how they ended up in that grave, and never acknowledge the bad things that happened to them at their end of life.
Sights , sounds, and everything that was going on during that time of that person’s passing is simply wiped clean of all memory.
How Megan Madeline Thomas ended up in Lakeview cemetery is simple.
Drunk driving or buzzed driving continues not only in Pennsylvania unabated, but throughout the entire United States.
The young man that took her life that night left the scene, because his vehicle was still able to get him away from that scene.
The man had no driver’s license, no insurance on any vehicle, and the vehicle was not even his.
He did hold an O.L.L. license though, given him back that privilege to drive and it cost him $50.00 through the Department Of Transportation.
He did not end up in front of a jury after being caught, and plead guilty to all charges.
The man got 4.8 years in the state penitentiary for taking that life.
The man will be able to drive again after he serves his time and goes to a driver’s training school ordered by the judge.
We also seem to forget that we hand a murderer back his tools of the crime.
Or do we?
I do not see people that commit a crime with a gun, get back that gun after time being served.
Drunk driving and killing a family must not be a crime then.
Because it may be the only weapon that we give back after they have killed.
I can only end up telling you this and this with confidence.
Drunk driving or buzzed driving will continue through the United States.
It is a money maker for many, and important people look the other way.
The site that I made for Megan, with pictures of her during her life is listed below.
The site also has a song on it. Please read all the facts that I put on this short 10 minute video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ik3woSJyE

                                                         
Son-In-Laws Interview is here

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story/Five-Years-Later-Remembering-Megan/0gF89-rVYE64NJ_HfQLbtg.cspx

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