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NY couple Gets Married At 7-Year-Old Son's Funeral
SFChronicle ^
| September 08, 2009
Posted on 09/08/2009 11:52:27 AM PDT by Steelfish
Edited on 09/08/2009 11:55:47 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died after an upstate New York car crash have fulfilled his wish that they get married, and they did it at the child's funeral.
Amilcar Hill and Rahwa Ghirmatizion (ger-MAT'-ee-zahn) got married during Monday's funeral service in Buffalo for their son, Asa Hill. Asa died a day after his grandfather's car was involved a chain-reaction highway crash last week.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:52:28 AM PDT
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Steelfish
To: Steelfish
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:53:23 AM PDT
by
synbad600
To: Steelfish
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:54:38 AM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
To: Steelfish
Right idea. Wrong time.
But it does beg the question: why did they wait 7 years to do it?
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:55:33 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: synbad600
that’s what the kid wanted (supposedly) so who are we to argue?
To: Steelfish
Ah, I understand now. Perhaps I would have done it differently but it was done to fulfill his last wish. Motes and beams.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:55:53 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: synbad600
It may be a little weird but I think they were simply trying to honor their son’s wish.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:55:56 AM PDT
by
imskylark
(To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Teddy Roosevelt)
To: Steelfish
A day late and a dollar short.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:55:59 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Soothesayer
I thought it was touching that they fulfilled their son’s wish. It is beautiful. I hope they stay married forever and have many more children.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:56:32 AM PDT
by
brwnsuga
(Not a Slave!)
To: Steelfish
And Ted Kennedy wanted Health Care reform.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:56:59 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
To: Steelfish
Gosh, what do you wear to a combo funeral/wedding?
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:58:14 AM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: Soothesayer; synbad600
"That is so sad." "That's weird"
That's weird and sad.
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:58:44 AM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: Steelfish
Must have been a sad event.
To: randog
"Gosh, what do you wear to a combo funeral/wedding?" Gray?
Stripes?
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posted on
09/08/2009 11:59:45 AM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: randog
Gosh, what do you wear to a combo funeral/wedding? Heck, what do you SAY?
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:02:23 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: CatOwner
But it does beg the question: why did they wait 7 years to do it?Better late than never...? Lucky 7 doesn't fit this sad scenario.
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:03:46 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
To: max americana
The kid asked them to marry at his funeral?
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:03:54 PM PDT
by
nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
To: imskylark
This horrific accident happened less than a mile from where I work. Lots of heroes jumped out of their cars and all injured were removed from the cars before police/fire dept arrived. I think Asa was on life support a couple of days.
It didn’t seem weird when the marriage was reported on TV.
I pray the marriage “sticks”.
To: Steelfish
They got married after he died? Was it his dying wish? Or had he been asking them for 7 years (or since being able to speak) to get married? If so, then it was selfish of them to not get married when they had a son already and waited until a tragedy (his death) to get married.
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:04:52 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(Science is not consensus; and science based on consensus is not science, but propaganda.)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:05:16 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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