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H2O Man

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38. Thank you!

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 05:28 PM

Mar 2016

I appreciate this.

This is the third generation of a relatively small extended family to be murdered in my lifetime. Our uncle was murdered in a small hamlet's bar; his murderer was upset that my uncle won a card game. The murderer's friends helped him load the body into my uncle's vehicle, and burn it on a lonely dirt road.

About 15 years later, his son -- an ex-Marine -- was murdered over a cheap bag of pot .....I can't remember if it was $20 or $10. But it really wasn't worth a human life.

No one was prosecuted in either of those cases. So it is good to see the area police forces and DA's office prosecuting this guy next week. I don't think it would happen in some parts of our country. Both the DA and police have treated us respectfully.

The system is a funny thing: it can work quite well, or not at all.

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