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One bright and sunny day in the fall of 1989 a young man was helping his two teenaged brothers fly kites.

The weather was perfect and they had a thousand feet of string for each kite. The entire length of string played out on one kite and it took out over the valley at a dizzying height, never to be seen again.

Fearing the loss of the other kite, the young man recommended that his teenaged brother reel in the remaining kite. The wind had other plans, and took the kite, and severed the string. The wind eventually dropped the kite in a tree thirty feet high, in the middle of the deep woods.

After hours of searching the three brothers located the kite. The teenagers were dismayed, there was no way for them to reach that height at that location. The older brother, however, wrapped his legs around the smooth trunk of the tree and began climbing it. Hoping that his longer arms would allow him to eventually reach the kite.

Near the top, with the kite almost within reach, 25 feet off the ground, the entire crown of the tree snapped, as it snapped, the branches wrapped around the climber forcing him to fall the entire length onto the ground below, flat on his back on a large rock. The crown of the tree landed across his legs.

His younger brothers were in shock as they looked on the still, unbreathing body of their brother. They had no idea what to do, their older brother was dead. They decided, after a short discussion, that one of them would go let their father know what happened while the other stayed to ensure that they would be able to find the same location in the woods.

Then, as one teen turned to go, the still body of their brother stood up. His younger brothers screamed.

Today, he writes political commentary on Free Republic under the pseudonymn...

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