Sad local story answers question I asked on this forum last year.

[DemoTex]

I asked about a bumper-sticker I had seen here in Greenville, SC. (mainly on a very few cars in my neighborhood). It was a simple bumper-sticker: reMEMber. That's it. I assumed it was connected to 9/11, like the maudlin bumper-stickers in Griffin, Georgia. Not so.

Sunday evening, Dr. D. and I walked Nick-Nick. A block away, on Crescent St., there was police activity .. including two "forensics" trucks. They were at the house where I had seen the "reMEMber" bumper-stickers.

Ends up, the 57 year old, retired lawyer (divorced) who lives there alone had been found dead at the bottom of the staircase. The GPD forensics guy told us it was a normal investigation for such a finding, and that they thought it was accidental. They also told us that they thought he died the night before.

Here is the clincher. This man had a daughter. She was smart and beautiful and headed for the good life. She died in a car crash about three years ago (just before we moved from Dallas to Greenville). Her name? Maggie Elizabeth McLeod: MEM. reMEMber.

It is like the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

Mac

[KatyaR]

1. Wow, that's really sad--I hate stories like this;

however, that a sweetly subtle way to remember someone. He must have been devastated when she died.

Unfortunately, the trend here in Oklahoma seems to be to plaster the person's face on your car with the birth and death dates and add some maudlin quote beside it. I saw one the other day on an SUV in the Target parking lot that was for a three-year-old boy. I think that's taking it a little too far . . . .

[DemoTex]

2. That's real big here too.

Not my cup of tea.