[ARC5] Ever More OT: Seat Belts

[ka8vit at ka8vit.com]

David,
 
Thanks for the post.
 
It had me tearing up.
 
73 - Bill KA8VIT
 

> On November 17, 2015 at 7:45 PM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
> I post this because I have dear friends here
> and if only one listens, it's worth it.
>
> I wear two wedding rings, one on each hand.
> http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/hands.jpg
>
> One bright, sunny day I and my beautiful young wife
> Talyha left our home in Pahrump, Nevada to travel
> into Vegas for a dental appointment.
> We turned onto Nevada Hwy 160
> and I pulled-over to the sholder.
> "Sweetheart, I don't suppose it would do any good
> to ask you to put on your seat belt?"
> I always wore mine. She would not wear hers.
> "David, when it's your time, it's your time," she said.
> 20 minutes later, two 18-wheelers rounded a blind
> corner, filling the narrow mountain highway.
> The head-on impact was brutal.
> I survived with minor injuries.
> But three very hard, pain and terror-filled hours later,
> it was "her time...."
> http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/Talyha.jpg
>
> Please, my friends. Please.
>
> Dave S.



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