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Originally Posted by Boomer
Dear TOTVers,
Please do not let this turn into one of those judgmental, flippant threads that too often happen here.
The people of this young man's neighborhood in Cincinnati have tied blue and white ribbons around their trees to welcome Otto home. Driving through there brings tears and a reminder........
Young people do not always make the best decisions, no matter how smart they are. Otto was salutatorian of his high school class at a public school known to be one of the best in Cincinnati. He then went on to UVA which has among the highest of admission standards. An academic young man, brimming with promise........
Beautiful promise destroyed by unspeakable evil.
Who among us has not made a mistake.
Who among us has not hoped and prayed that the children we love will get safely through those young years -- those years when they begin to leave us to enter their lives as adults -- but not quite there yet.
I hope those who choose to post here will stop and think and try to imagine the heartbreak those parents must endure.
Truly,
Boomer
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I hope we do too. Learned last night that the 26 year old son of my Illinois cousin-- or one of the many of I have of these- committed suicide last month. Still trying to understand why someone so young would do this. And in this case it is the evil of a regime with no checks-and-balances that ruined this man's life probably. Just because of a cult of personality and almost total control of the press, police, military, etc. in North Korea.