Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Have You Ever Been Witness to Sadness Which is Just Incomprehensible and Beyond Belief?

Yes that is devastating and I will be praying for those who lost so much.

Yes I have felt that loss. Thirty four percent of the men in my high school graduating class were dead 24 months after graduation. I am sure many my age have felt the same.

My wife died of Stage Four breast cancer in 2011.
She had plans to be a grandmother and live to be 100 years old.
My sons lost their mother, I doubt if any of us will ever be the same.

Remember 911??

Met a little girl and her Mom today after they had just got back from the funeral of the little girl's Dad. He was murdered last week during an altercation with a guy that is currently on the run. Very sad for that little girl....I sure hope she has a good support system and finds a way to have a good life without a father.

That touched me deeply. So sorry for your loss.

November 1980 I was getting ready for a night shift and as I was getting dressed into my uniform I really did not want to go to work as I knew someone was going to die that night. I just didn't know who.

Sure enough about midnight I rendezvoused with the other officer who was working and as we were talking the street lights blinked a couple of times. We knew we had an accident somewhere in town. We found it just a few blocks away. A mustang had hit a large power pole and was broken open like an egg. Two kids were laying on the ground on the passenger side with no car roof over them and the driver was trapped under the steering wheel, also with no roof over him. The roof and trunk was separated from the undercarriage and engine department.

A young girl who worked at a local grocery store and a recent graduate from high school was still alive on the ground but she died while I was checking her pulse and trying to tell her to hang in there help was on the way. The boy was doing better but not by much.

The worst part of the night was going to the parents home and telling them to either get to the hospital or telling them their daughter was gone. Mom came unglued. I stuck around making phone calls to family members asking them to come to Ankeny and be with the girls family. She was an only child.

I ran into the boy about 5 years later and he was really proud about his recovery. He was a quadlaplegic but he announced so proudly "I can use my right hand now". His wheel chair had a joystick and he could use his right hand to steer the chair. My guess is he is long dead by now.

Of course, alcohol and speed was a factor in this crash.

kwg

I lost my best friend in 2002. Despite the talk, the "we'll never forget", when I go to the cemetery, there are no flowers but the ones I leave. For me that's the most incomprehensible sadness of all. How could people just walk away like she never lived, never mattered?

Just because some don't often visit the cemetery doesn't mean they don't think of the deceased.
I recently visited my parents and grandmas grave after a gap of more than 10 yrs.

and if I'm buried in the plot I have beside them, Ill be bothering them everyday from then on.
so best I let them enjoy their peace while it lasts..