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Ah, thank you....I'm getting older and the years are running together these days.

However, with that said, as another poster pointed out....if you are going to do an article about one student's tragic death, then you should be willing to include all students, regardless of what school that they attended.

All these deaths are tragic, not just one in particular.

grayboomerang
June 10, 2007 9:30 a.m.

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You know, I think the 4 that flipped off the new 264 were not all seniors last year. I think that at least one of them would have been a senior this year. It is sad anyway, but they all made their choices. Teens think that they are going to live forever. Why, since their friends who have drank and driven have sometimes wound up dead or severely injured, I don't know.

computer trainer
June 10, 2007 9:27 a.m.

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Grayboomerang - they were seniors with the class of 2006, not 2007. They were memorialized last year.

phoenixelon99
June 9, 2007 10:39 p.m.

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Mark, you are just mean. May you never walk in Sadiki's mom's shoes...it must be nice to have your life planned out just so, with everything in order. Don't ever assume that your kids aren't going to step out of line, no matter how "well" you raised them, Mark. You never know...

sini27
June 9, 2007 7:04 p.m.

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Isn't he the one left to die by his buddies because they were afraid of being caught?

atozca
June 9, 2007 12:27 p.m.

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I'm sorry, i know a life had been lost and its very tragic and all but why is this a "top story"? we had a moment of silence at my graduation yesterday for a fellow classmate that died, why cant it be reported too??

kaykay12
June 9, 2007 9:21 a.m.

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This is not a new problem. I graduated in 1976 and we had several students while I was in high school die as a result of drinking and driving.

str8-line
June 9, 2007 9:16 a.m.

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Mark, it is impossible to write a story and NOT spin it. This is what the right-wing calls liberal bias. However, I would like to see you try and rewrite it with no spin and have it remain interesting.

In the meantime, I agree it's sad, but this bad stuff will always happen. It's part of life. Kids are kids and I feel lucky that I made it through some of the situations I put myself in at their age. There were PLENTY of chances that I would have died too.

Harvey
June 9, 2007 9:00 a.m.

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While Sadiki was not the driver, he willingly got into a vehicle with someone he KNEW had been drinking and who was UNDERAGE, meaning they were breaking at least two laws. He could have been drinking himself. I have to agree with Mark. This was a time for celebration for graduates, but the only thing that they are reporting is about this student who was honored because he died. He got into a vehicle with a drunk driver and was killed. They could have killed others, also. The rest of the public was lucky that it was not them that were hit, just an embankment.

computer trainer
June 9, 2007 8:46 a.m.

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Weren't the four boys who died when they flipped off of the new 64 bypass, seniors????

Were they not remembered as well?

grayboomerang
June 9, 2007 8:31 a.m.

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