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2007-08-13 -Obits-

School bus that came to represent bridge tragedy lifted from site

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Posted by Sherry 2007-08-13 00:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Also -- sorry about the size of the pic -- I used the PIC thingy in the posting part. And have no idea how to control the sizing.

And another also... can someone please explain to me (I've wondered since we began seeing pics of this) how in the world that white car stopped where it did? There are several others like that.... I just have to wonder if I would have had enough thought to slam on the brakes soon enough and strong enough to stop that forward momentum that had to be occurring.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-08-13 00:45|| 2007-08-13 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 It must have been that s/he was already stopped and then that section of bridge tilted. See how the section is broken not far behind the car?

And it seems to me that even those living here in many cases have minimal respect for life and way too much love for death. Perhaps they fear death the most so they over-embrace it. Maybe not. Just wondering out loud.

Posted by gorb 2007-08-13 03:35|| 2007-08-13 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Who cares about school buses?

Posted by Mayor Nagin">Mayor Nagin 2007-08-13 09:10|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-08-13 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 A very nice Catholic girl I was dating in 1966 told me her Grandmother had passed away. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry." She said, "I'm not; she's in heaven with God!"

I guess it's selfish to miss the departed. The year before, my best friend was killed in a motorcycle accident, and I was extremely selfish.

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-13 09:22|| 2007-08-13 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 A few years back I was returning home from attending a funeral of one of my uncles. Sad time; he was a very popular, well-respected man, and he died suddenly, so there was a big hole in many of us in the family.

I stopped at a gas station in Indiana, still in my funeral clothes, and as I'm filling the tank the person at the pump next to me inquired as to my suit. When I mentioned that I had just been to my uncle's funeral, the man asked, "was your uncle a Christian?"

"Yes," I replied, "he was indeed."

"Then he's already in heaven," the man said. He was sincere and quiet about it, and I found it difficult to respond to that.

So like Bobby's ex-GF, there are people who indeed see death and a funeral as just one more step.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-08-13 12:43|| 2007-08-13 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 "can someone please explain to me ... how in the world that white car stopped where it did?"

Very good brakes, Sherry?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-08-13 14:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-08-13 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 *smile* you got me there!

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-08-13 15:38|| 2007-08-13 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 "We need as a community to learn from this event," said Imam Abdisalam Adam of ~~Dar Al-Hijrah Cultural Center~~ Future Terrorists of America Training Center in Minneapolis.

Fixed it.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-08-13 15:38|| 2007-08-13 15:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought there were very strict laws covering burial, because the kind described in the article leads to contamination of the groundwater... in addition to making the worms happy.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-13 17:07|| 2007-08-13 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Jewish custom forbids embalming too, tw. It's considered unnatural, and too reminiscent of ancient Egyptian practice.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-08-13 22:25|| 2007-08-13 22:25|| Front Page Top

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