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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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Tonight I attended a candlelight memorial service for three family members who were stabbed to death last weekend here in the Bellevue area of Nashville.
Story here.
I attended because the 14 year old boy was a scout in one of the units for which I am a commissioner, and; I knew him.
He was also a freshman at the local high school. The service, with some guidance from a local Lutheran minister, was chiefly composed of the young man's classmates at the high school. They would get up and sing a song, say a prayer, read a poem they had written, or just cry for a bit.
The mother was a waitress at a new local eatery. The grandmother helped make change at the annual Christmas Tree sale by Troop 87, where the young man was a scout.
I suppose this is not of much interest. It is just another murder in a constant string of murders in our world.
I guess what made me write this is seeing how these senseless deaths affected a whole group of people. There are all kinds of young people who are having to cope with these savage killings and who will need help to do so.
May the Lord bring all of them hope and peace.
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Pigwidgeon
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All I can say is ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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~Tortuf
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BessLane
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Tortuf, how awful and how infuriating. I am sorry for your loss and can't help but think that your presence and your efforts with the scouting organization will be a big help to these young people as they try to cope with such a senseless loss. Good for the Lutheran pastor that helped the young man's friends put together the memorial service.
So sad. There's just too damn much of this.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Barefoot Friar
Ship's Shoeless Brother
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I agree. Too much violence, too little understanding. Too much selfishness, too little forgiveness.
I will remember the family members in my prayers tomorrow, and through the coming days.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. -- Desmond Tutu
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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I'm so sorry, Tortuf.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Welease Woderwick
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Holding all involved in the Light.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I was a troop scouter for nearly two decades and am still involved in Scouting. I feel your pain, my brother.
for all concerned.
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seasick
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Lord, have mercy.
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We believe there is, and always was, in every Christian Church, ... an outward priesthood, ordained by Jesus Christ, and an outward sacrifice offered therein. - John Wesley
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Mary LA
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― Muriel Spark
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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Anselmina
Ship's barmaid
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Awful. But I'm glad you did think of sharing this with us (sorry about the 'sharing' jargon).
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Piglet
Islander
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May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Not much to add, but holding hands with everyone in prayer.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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lilBuddha
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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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The funeral was today. Yesterday was visitation. I think there were over 70 scouts in uniform and about 35 adult leaders in uniform. That was the bulk of the crowd when we were there.
Thankfully, counseling services are already arranged for anyone who wants them. There are counselors from within the commissioner services in scouts as well as from the church where the troop meets.
A paramedic who went into the house and dealt with the carnage said it looked like the devil had been there. Every paramedic received mandatory grief counseling.
And, oh yes. The thing that touched all this off? A missing car navigation device.
I appreciate everyone's kind responses.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Praying. Especially for the nine-year-old sister. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Enigma
Enigma
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So sorry Tortuf. Loss of young life is hard.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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Sometimes life is so bad it feels untrue - it must be a bad dream. Only it isn't.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Can't say I understand violence, but I understand pain.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Another long time Scouter here. Holding all involved in prayer.
Lord, have mercy
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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monkeylizard
Ship's scurvy
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My wife knows the killer. It creeps her out every time a news story runs on it. He was a regular in a class she takes at the local YMCA. Her spidey senses always tingled when he was in class, but nothing to make someone think he was capable of this.
Your paramedic friend was right. I spoke to a cop buddy who is an instructor at the police academy and a SWAT member. He spoke with the first officer on scene (who happens to be a rookie, the poor guy). Whatever you're thinking it looked like in there, it was worse. All the cops there have to do counseling too.
I hope that someday that little girl can find some normality in her life. She has lost her family, her home, her school, and so much more.
[ 12. September 2012, 21:56: Message edited by: monkeylizard ]
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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