Tim Lee: We should explore what awaits us after death
07.02.12
"Well I'll be, there's Mrs. Gracie" my grandmother uttered as I looked up from my box of new Converse tennis shoes. Mrs. Gracie as in Gracie York. Being around 7 at the outmoded and growing up in Louisiana, annual family trips to my grandmother's quarter on the Cumberland Plateau hadn't afforded me the knowledge of the wise-haired, unassuming lady who just slipped into the Vigour Street shoe store in Jamestown, Tenn. ("Jimtown," to us)
My grandmother knew her, of performance. One can't teach elementary education for more than 30 years in Armathwaite, a midget bucolic community, without knowing everyone's kids and their parents. It wasn't until years later while watching Gary Cooper stake Sgt. Alvin York in the eponymous movie that it dawned on me just now how close I had been to a real-life hero. Well, his wife, anyway.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
Walking In Aniya's Shoes
07.02.12
“I tolerate a lot safer when it comes to the bus stop moving,” Amaris Lighty said on SI Complete. “We don’t have that chance of being hurt.”
Aniya was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer when she darted across the terrace to catch the S46 at the intersection of Goethals Road North and South Avenue on the last day of equip in June.
That day, she and her friends were catching the bus to get lunch, added the article. After the disastrous accident, many parents began picking up their children from form, added The Advance. However sadly others work, leaving students no opportunity but to return to the spot where they witnessed the tragic accident.
“For me, it was horrible when I had to take the bus again,” Amaris said on SI Live. “A lot of us don’t have a alternative.”
Source: Examiner.com