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.
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Tissues optional.
Impressive. But should the state spend time and money each year?
Once on the anniversary should be sufficient.
I did not see where this was a state function, but the personal initiative of the troopers highlighted in the story.
That would be my guess, as well.
Ah. That’s better then.
I was thinking a cold impersonal mass generated to who it may concern sympathy card.
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.
The best comfort a cop can give is a professional investigation. This is a subset of that President as “comforter in Chief” concept.
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