The Kirkwood tragedy, "the truth will come out"
Folks we all feel a great loss, as well as an empty feeling inside when ever a tragedy like this occurs. I lost a friend (Bill Biggs) in the shooting, and the entire area lost some very fine public servants.
What can anyone say when this type of thing happens, why? What sort of rage must be pent up in a human being to do such a thing? Are we secure enough here? All these questions and more will be coming up in the days and weeks to follow, and I pray that we will have some answers for ourselves as well as our children.
If you will please click on the thread header you may begin to get some answers as to the mind set of the killer, I don't get it, but maybe you will. It is said the "Lord works in mysterious ways," Can we take something form this and tone down the remarks made here on this blog? Can we understand that were all in this boat together, and we must come together if we are to succeed? I hope so for the sake of the dead.
Tom Ford
NO. 460
What can anyone say when this type of thing happens, why? What sort of rage must be pent up in a human being to do such a thing? Are we secure enough here? All these questions and more will be coming up in the days and weeks to follow, and I pray that we will have some answers for ourselves as well as our children.
If you will please click on the thread header you may begin to get some answers as to the mind set of the killer, I don't get it, but maybe you will. It is said the "Lord works in mysterious ways," Can we take something form this and tone down the remarks made here on this blog? Can we understand that were all in this boat together, and we must come together if we are to succeed? I hope so for the sake of the dead.
Tom Ford
NO. 460
posted by Crestwood Independent at 17:40
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I believe this fit's here my friends.
Too Busy for a Friend...
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much," were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed in VietNam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.
The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.
she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."
After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.
"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it."
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."
Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."
"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary"
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists"
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.
So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
Tom Ford
"I love ya man".
Tom,
I'm very sorry about your friend Officer Biggs and the rest of victims and their families. We will keep them all in our prayers.
Mike Heins
Because Kirkwood and Crestwood are neighbors, one cannot go one day without recalling this tragedy. It will be imbeded in our minds for a long, long time.
One cannot go back and put all the little pieces of the puzzle together, in hopes to feel that someone could have foreseen this would happen.
As with any tragedy, in order to undertand it, I am sure that each detail and incident leading up to this will be placed under the microscope to try to get to the bottom of this issue.
I am equally as sure that Kirkwood will also be put under the microscope to find out all the particulars in this case, sifting through all the avenues that would be pivitol in understanding this awful catastrophic carnage.
My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered. I hope that there can be closure to all those affected.
May God bless them all.
Well the truth is out my friends! The up standing citizen Mr. "cookie" Thornton used a STOLEN GUN to commit the murders!
All this hand wringing by the liberals in this area about what a nice man he was is obviously ridiculous, as he didn't seem to worry about a little thing as possessing a STOLEN firearm, now did he?
His memory should be relegated to the trash dump near Cahokia Mounds, along with his remains!
Tom Ford
5:48 Tom as much as I undertand your words regarding the Kirkwood tragedy, I think that the fact that Cookie Thornton's life was taken that day is enough revenge. He did something horrific and he got what he deserved for it. And now, he cannot hurt another human being.
Putting his corpse in a trash dump isn't going to bring any of those who lost their lives back again. Thornton sealed his fate when he took the law in his own hands. He cannot feel his body any longer, so where you throw it can't hurt him.
But the very second he was "downed" by the police, in that instance, he knew his life was over, and he knew that he paid the ultimate price for his anger and hostility.
I knew a man on my street that hated squirrls and rabbits in his yard because they would eat in his garden. He would use a BB gun and shoot them and take them by their tails and throw them in the trash when they were dead. Of course, he never got caught as many times as he was reported.
So when I read your words on the blog about the Cahokia Mounds dump, it made me sick. If we feel the same way about Thornton, then we are just stooping to a lower level and I don't think we should go there.
What I would dearly love to see however, is the use of the death penalty to get rid of the overcrowding in our jails across America because many of those prisoners deserved it. Those prisoners did not get the death penalty because their lawyers were able to get plea bargains.
Too many lawyers are being paid big bucks to keep criminals on the street. Something defnitely wrong there.
Just my opinion.
11:23 AM blogger; The "gentleman" who thought it was a good idea to "remove" Gods creatures from his yard SHOULD be arrested, booked, fined, and do some jail time!
Thornton however MURDERED people who had done NOTHING to him at all!
He was a stench in the nostrils of honest people everywhere, and as such deserves no glory!
Have you ever thought that if this type of person was not given the least bit of "face time" in the news, or written about, this may not happen in the future?
What if there were no funerals for these wanton MURDERERS, but only disgrace for them and their family, what then?
Sorry, but I lost friends that night, and the community lost some very good people, however Thornton wasn't one of them!
In my opinion, he belongs there!
Tom Ford
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