wallyd
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I’m from a small town in the Midwest, population of about 2500 residents. My town & surrounding small towns are dealing with a tragedy this week. I know some board members are within an hour of my home town, I ask if you heard about this in any way please don’t disclose the location.
Saturday August 10 sometime around 9-10 pm there was a horrible accident on one of the highways that leads to my home town. My 32 year old cousin & her 5 year old son came up on an incident that had the highway shut down. She was in line with many other vehicles just waiting to get past the incident & get home.
As she sat in traffic with her flashers on & doing a top speed of roughly 6 mph a foreigner driving a semi is traveling towards the incident. He has his windows tinted extremely dark & is watching tv or something similar in his truck. He hits my cousins vehicle at 75 mph smashing her between his semi & the one stopped in front of her. He also manages to kill another women that was in a different vehicle.
Thursday was the wake. When I say the funeral home was packed that’s an understatement. People were parking in every spot they could find. Pharmacy lots, child care facility, I found a spot at a car wash. The line filled the chapel, down the hall & started filling another chapel. It was the biggest show of support I have ever seen.
A local bar/restaurant had made a fb post saying he was donating a percent of all sales to help with expenses. He does this for different things, he has done this to pay off school lunches for families that just can’t afford it as an example.
Just to show our support and to thank this man 7 family members met up to eat at this restaurant. The owner found out who we were, I’m the only one he had met before & came back to offer his condolences. He asked if we needed anything. Of course he checked on our food & drink but he honestly was asking if we were “ok” ourselves. He came back again & offered to cater an event they had set up for her family on the house.
This morning he asked me to come to the restaurant & pick up the check for my cousin. I honestly couldn’t be any more proud to be from this small town. I can’t wait to draw my pension & move back. If any of you can relate you already know small town are just different.
Saturday August 10 sometime around 9-10 pm there was a horrible accident on one of the highways that leads to my home town. My 32 year old cousin & her 5 year old son came up on an incident that had the highway shut down. She was in line with many other vehicles just waiting to get past the incident & get home.
As she sat in traffic with her flashers on & doing a top speed of roughly 6 mph a foreigner driving a semi is traveling towards the incident. He has his windows tinted extremely dark & is watching tv or something similar in his truck. He hits my cousins vehicle at 75 mph smashing her between his semi & the one stopped in front of her. He also manages to kill another women that was in a different vehicle.
Thursday was the wake. When I say the funeral home was packed that’s an understatement. People were parking in every spot they could find. Pharmacy lots, child care facility, I found a spot at a car wash. The line filled the chapel, down the hall & started filling another chapel. It was the biggest show of support I have ever seen.
A local bar/restaurant had made a fb post saying he was donating a percent of all sales to help with expenses. He does this for different things, he has done this to pay off school lunches for families that just can’t afford it as an example.
Just to show our support and to thank this man 7 family members met up to eat at this restaurant. The owner found out who we were, I’m the only one he had met before & came back to offer his condolences. He asked if we needed anything. Of course he checked on our food & drink but he honestly was asking if we were “ok” ourselves. He came back again & offered to cater an event they had set up for her family on the house.
This morning he asked me to come to the restaurant & pick up the check for my cousin. I honestly couldn’t be any more proud to be from this small town. I can’t wait to draw my pension & move back. If any of you can relate you already know small town are just different.
