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Anyone else interested by Gary Corsair's front page Villages Daily Sun story a few days ago about the long term effects of two drunk driving crashes on members of his family? One was against the car his wife was in when she was a teen in Hawaii and the other was a car driven by his drunk grandfather and the result on his grandmother.

I tried to wait for a link to Villages Daily Sun article by Gary Corsair but it does not seem to be one they are featuring.

My Gary Corsair had written a short article about my efforts to get the Florida Victim Services Directory http://myfloridalegal.com/directory linked from the Villages' area public libraries. This was on Memorial Day of 2007.

Hope that others will get involved with getting this Directory linked from the Sumter, Lake, and Marion County libraries as well as from the various County Sheriff's websites. http://www.myfloridalegal.com/vicdir...rcuit!OpenView http://www.flsheriffs.org/sheriffs/f...iff-directory/

Gary Corsair's drunk driving article did mention Mothers Against Drunk Driving. I have been writing various Chapters of MADD since 1992 since I received the National Organization of Victim Assistance Directory of Victim Assistance Programs and Resources. http://www.trynova.org/ I had written these to create a dialog between librarians of all kinds and victim service providers to try to improve resources for victims/survivors of crimes in all types of libraries after I found very little of practical value in libraries while looking for materials to help myself as well as fellow students in a Earl Wooster High English class in Reno, Nevada after the murder of my then high school teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell's daughter Michelle Mitchell on my birthday of 2-24 in 1976. http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851160696P2d464_11159 http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/15784017.html http://www.newsreview.com/reno/victi...ent?oid=640061

Survivors of crimes can still benefit from access to information about support groups and other connections that can be made through various assistance providers.

I tried to push this issue of access to practical information with the resources I had into the limelight by writing every association I could think of from 1992 through 2002 at least. Maybe to the point of an obsession but it seems still to be a problem which can be fixed to some extent by more people requesting local area information providers and law enforcement like libraries and sheriff's offices to address this matter. I also see this as a matter of public health especially since a researcher at the University of California San Francisco Medical School , Ms. Young, had complemented me about this cause of mine after I described it to her while in a study on stress on the unemployed in late 1992 through early 1993. This was while I was subject #613.

I hope that more TOTVers will get involved with this.