If this doesn't touch your soft spot, you're simply evil

[HEyHEY]

Hundreds of people flocked to a yard sale in Kingston, Ont., on Saturday after hearing a nine-year-old boy wanted to raise money to buy a headstone for his dead father.

"I just felt bad because there was no gravestone, so I wanted raise money to buy a gravestone," said Blake McGinness.

Blake's father, Rick Lees, who died last year of a stomach aneurysm, is buried at the Wilmer Cemetery just outside Kingston. His gravesite is currently marked only by some of Blake's toys, as the family couldn't afford a gravestone....

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/09/25/yard-sale-grave-stone.html

[Orrex]

1. A remarkably poignant story, but a duplicate thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9202402

[HEyHEY]

3. Well for FFS, some other Canadian is treading on my CBC posting terrtory

To arms, eh!

[Orrex]

4. You war-mongering hosers are always looking to start a fight

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What a great story, my dear HEyHEY...

And what a remarkable boy!

He already knows the meaning of caring...

Recommended.

[JVS]

5. I'm not evil. I'm desensitized.

While I can see that the story is sad, it lacks the gruesome horrific qualities that I've become accustomed to.

Maybe if the kid were robbed and severely beaten while holding the yard sale, I'd tear up a little.

[Mojambo]

6. I was doing okay until the part about the toys marking the gravesite. n/t

[HEyHEY]

7. yeah, that set me off too

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[TexasObserver]

9. "A company even in Texas offered to donate the gravestone," said Blake's mother

Good to see folks being responsive.