The Best and the Brightest
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Message: Korg Settelment
Everyone,
Although I communicate from time to time with several forum members via PM's I don't personally know a single person on this forum.
However, I feel like I know most of you and wanted to share this with you.
Yesterday afternoon, I attended the wake of Anne Smendinghoff.
Anne and her family are from my home town in the suburbs of Chicago and Anne was killed died during a car-bombing in Afghanistan on Saturday, April 6, 2013.
Anne attended our local Catholic grade and high schools and she was only 25 years old when she was killed at the hands of a suicide bomber. Anne was a U.S. foreign service officer in Kabul, Afghanistan, and she was traveling with a group of people to deliver books to a local school in the Zabul Province.
The lines at the wake were hour's long as the entire western suburb of Chicago close knit community turned out to pay their respects. Every tree for miles has been decorated with a white ribbons out of respect and to honor Anne's incredibly accomplished young life.
The streets in our community were lined today with thousands of people standing in the pouring rain as they prayed and paid tribute to Anne and her loving family.
This marvelous, wonderful and accomplished young lady died attempting to make this world a better place to live.
Truely, the "best and the brightest".
We live in a dangerous and dark world at times. At a tender young age this young lady dedicated her life in an attempt to make this world a better place to live.
Sadly,
Wheels
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