My brush came with a real good friend after graduating from H.S. He came from a very well-off and respected family (generations old family owned insurance company, father was Chief of our volunteer FD, very involved in the community, summer vacations spent on grandfather's 75' Burger cruising the East coast) and our family had been friends or acquaintances going back several generations. I never had an inkling of a cue that anything was wrong with him. Due to the way they found him the speculation was that he just couldn't deal with not living up to his father's expectations, no note was left.

He drove his car down to "the meadows" which is a native vegetation area, wetlands (we used to call them swamps) and farm land along the river with trails and dirt roads through out it. Apparently he started a fire on the fabric back seat of his car then shot himself in the head before the fire spread. Being a car fire, the FD was called and his father being chief with his business office less than a mile away was the first on the scene.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)