She is 27 years old and drives a Cadillac Escalade. She knew what she was doing re her over the limit drinking. Now let her pay the penalty for her selfishness and stupidity.
Looks like we lost a fine young man, the kind we need now more than ever.
Forgiveness is fine. A long jail sentence is better.
PS: I loss a friend/editor to a drunk driver. Killed him just after he had bought a station wagon he loved. Vince never had a chance. His killer, drunk out of his mind, got a precedence setting 5 years (no parole) sentence. It was a start but we lost an Army veteran (Berlin), editor, friend, church goer and patriot.
His family lost their only son.
I don’t forgive and I sure as hell don’t forget.
PS: My daughter and her unborn baby would have been killed is she had been in her car in front of her apartment. Luckily she was upstairs when an illegal Mexican, possibly drunk, rammed the engine through the firewall right and pushed the steering wheel into the driver’s seat area where the baby bump would have been.
My granddaughter, today, is one of the nicest, sweetest and smartest girls you’ll ever meet. We protect her, and that means her uncle, father and mother are concealed carry weapons permit holders as well as open carry.
And now there are other children in the family to protect. And we will to the best of our ability. That’s what parents and grandparents are here for, to protect the “kinder”, children, as my late grandmother would say.
The driver was 17, so he did not receive much punishment for the crime, although she;s still suffering.
He just got arrested driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol again. I wonder if this will be considered a first offense at 19, since he was a minor the last time?