Kyle,
I am so sorry for Anna and her boyfriend's family. I am so glad you
were able to trace back those awful text messages. You may want to
alert the school as they may get involved in the discipline if
needed. I hope everyone is coping with this tragedy (as well as can
be expected). My prayers are with you and the families involved.
Linda Macaulay
On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:54 PM, KE Cleveland wrote:
> Thanks, Kendall, mags and all. Yes, Anna stayed with a counselor
> provided
> by the school system almost the whole of last week. The school
> brought in a
> team of a dozen or so grief counselors for the student body. Chris
> was a
> very sweet kid. We think we might know what triggered his
> decision. Back
> in the summer he was hanging out with some other boys and decided
> to shoot
> firecrackers off in an abandoned house that the Fire Dept. was
> getting ready
> to burn down. Unfortunately, one of the cherry bombs beaat the
> fire dept.
> to the punch. Once the kids realized the fire was out of control,
> they ran
> (as teenage boys are wont to do) and got caught. Chris had kept
> this from
> Anna, Laura and I. His dad came down pretty hard on him and I
> think Chris'
> had built the consequences up in his mind to the point where he was
> terrified of going to court. He had never stolen so much as a
> candy bar or
> done anything other that this incident with his buddies. It's
> unlikely that
> he would have even received prrobation, and even if he did his
> record would
> be expunged at 18.
>
> Also, Laura and I had told both Chris and Anna that we were not
> comfortable
> with her dating at 15 (he was 17). We encouraged them to remain
> friends and
> he was welcome in our home anytime. Laura and I felt some twinges
> of guilt
> initially, but realized that his response to our request was
> positive and
> our decision probably had no bearing on his decision to end his life.
>
> Anna has received some very cruel cell phone texts and emails from
> some
> girls at school who thought they were being anonymous (guess they'd
> never
> heard of a MAC/IP address). We addressed the situation with the
> parents and
> I'm confident that all will deal with their daughters
> appropriately--save
> for one mother whose "little girl" would NEVER do such a thing!
> (The very
> idea! :-/ ) Kind of hard to deny a text message with your kid's
> cell phone
> number attached to it, but some moms and dads still try.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the prayers for our family and Chris'. After
> Ike and
> this I am emotionally exhausted. When I decompress a bit and get
> some time
> I'll tell some Ike stories. If these kids I worked with represent the
> majority of their age group, I think our country will end up just
> fine. It
> was very, very cool to be in the company of real heroes. Makes all
> of this
> election BS seem so juvenile in perspective.
>
> Kyle
>
> Kyle
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Kendall D. Corbett <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Kyle, our prayers are with Anna, her boyfriend's family and you as
>> you all
>> deal with this. A death like this is a tragedy for all concerned.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:59 PM, KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Laura and I are home safe. We received devastating news last
>>> weekend
>> that
>>> daughter Anna's boyfriend decided to end his life by stepping in
>>> front of
>> a
>>> train at a local crossing. He left no note. Neither Laura nor I
>>> could
>> get
>>> back home, but Laura's parents were fortunately staying at our
>>> home when
>>> all
>>> of this happened. Anna is doing as well as can be expected. The
>>> last
>> three
>>> weeks have been rather rough. I'm headed to a family reunion in
>> Nashville
>>> this weekend. Hoping that better days are ahead.
>>>
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Kathy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> TS Kyle is brewing off the coast of NC (sorry, Kyle, I couldn't
>> resist!)
>>>>
>>>> Does this mean Kyle will bring Kyle back to North Carolina?
>>>>
>>>> Kat
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Kendall
>>
>> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>>
>> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
>> progress
>> depends on the unreasonable man.
>>
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