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Families of crash victims get annual sympathy card from chief of Minnesota State Patrol
KARE11.com ^ | 8/2/2021 | Boyd Huppert

Posted on 08/03/2021 9:17:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Col. Matt Langer was inspired by another trooper who marked a fatal crash with an annual call.

WYOMING, Minnesota — Sure as a sunrise, the envelope arrives each year in the mailbox of Bruce and Sharon Pearson.

“We have received 15 and this year will be the 16th," Sharon Pearson says. “That card has always arrived by the 9th of December.

Sharon Pearson remembers tearing up as she read the first one.

The note had arrived on the anniversary of their 14-year-old daughter Hannah’s death in a traffic accident.

(Excerpt) Read more at kare11.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: minnesota; statepatrol; sympathy
Video report at link.

Tissues optional.

1 posted on 08/03/2021 9:17:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Impressive. But should the state spend time and money each year?

Once on the anniversary should be sufficient.


2 posted on 08/03/2021 9:21:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I did not see where this was a state function, but the personal initiative of the troopers highlighted in the story.


3 posted on 08/03/2021 9:27:24 AM PDT by larrytown (No matter how much the cats fight there always seems to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: larrytown

That would be my guess, as well.


4 posted on 08/03/2021 9:29:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: larrytown

Ah. That’s better then.

I was thinking a cold impersonal mass generated to who it may concern sympathy card.


5 posted on 08/03/2021 9:32:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Impressive. But should the state spend time and money each year?

its not a government function whatsoever. Its not a government bureaucracy's job to provide emotional support. Also, regardless of the good intentions, its going to ultimately become a huge bureaucratic clusterfrack which will sooner or later upset people, when they send out cards with wrong names, inappropriate messages, severely delayed, etc. etc.

6 posted on 08/03/2021 9:56:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The best comfort a cop can give is a professional investigation. This is a subset of that President as “comforter in Chief” concept.


7 posted on 08/03/2021 10:14:35 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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