Saturday, December 9, 2006
| Kim Family Took Deadly Wrong Turn Because Vandals Cut Lock on Oregon Road's Gate | |
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 | GRANTS PASS, Ore. — James Kim likely would never have made what turned out to be a deadly wrong turn, had vandals not cut the lock of a gate blocking off a remote logging road in the Oregon wilderness, authorities said Friday. The road that Kim and his family drove down before getting stranded deep in the Rogue River Canyon is normally blocked by a locked metal gate, but it was open the night they got lost because a vandal had cut the lock, authorities said Friday. |
This is a sad turn to the story. Now we know that it wasn't just a wrong turn that doomed Mr. Kim, but a vandal and a broken lock that led him down that path. Granted, there is no way to know if the Kims would have gotten stuck somewhere else along the road they were traveling (since they had gotten lost), it seems that the (alleged) deliberate removal of the lock is the central reason the family was stuck. I feel very bad for the family and friends, and I would imagine that somewhere out there a person is feeling worse than me realizing they caused this.
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Reason amongst the wilderness
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Thursday, December 7, 2006
Police: Hero Dad Thought Help For Stranded Family Was Closer, Died of HypothermiaTruly a sad story, hopefully somehow he realized his family was ok :(Thursday, December 07, 2006
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An undated photo provided Oregon State Police shows Penelope, James and Sabine Kim
MERLIN,Ore. — A San Francisco father of four who left hisfamily a week after their car got stuck on a snowy, remote road inOregon made a tragic miscalculation of the distance he had to cover tofind help.
Oregon police said Thursday that James Kim, whose body was found Wednesday in the mountains of southern Oregon, died of exposure and hypothermia. The discovery brought an end to what authorities called an extraordinary effort to stay alive.
Kim was a senior editor for the technology media company CNET Networks Inc.He and his family had been missing since Nov. 25. They were headinghome to San Francisco after a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest.
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Reason amongst the elements
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With apologies to MK and a h/t to Townhall, I'm stealing this tribute:
The best place to hear about it is from survivors, and you can see many of their stories on You Tube,many of them interviewed with the very scene of the attack as abackdrop, now all peace and sunshine and palm trees. I went to PearlHarbor in 2005. It being Hawaii, the place was absolutely gorgeous.
It struck me that the servicemen there in December of 1941 probablyhadn't been too displeased with their orders when they ended up servingin a 70-degree paradise in wintertime. Hawaii was less developed then,of course, but still beautiful, dotted with enough naturalattractions to keep anyone spellbound. Perhaps they were consideringtheir good fortune as they strode the decks of the Arizona thatmorning. Maybe they were looking out into the breezy blue and countingthemselves lucky to in paradise instead of Pennsylvania.
Then, blue skies clouded with Japanese bombers, calm waters caughton fire, and those young men became fighters and casualties in a warthey didn't even know had started.
Follow the link and read the rest of it, it is a great tribute. It has been 65 years since the devastating attack on our forces at Pearl Harbor started the great American war machine churning and precipitated our entry into WWII. What was accomplished then will never be forgotten.
Thanks to the Americans of that era, the people of today feel free to bash their President, military and countrymen with aplomb. Thanks to those brave and tireless fighters and the working people that stayed behind, Europe is free to bash America and promote terrorism vis-a-vis anti-american policies of appeasement and defeatism.
Thanks to that war and the outcome, the Jewish people regained their homeland. They've been fighting for it every since with little help from the world that was on the brink of a German Suzerienty. As long as free people continue to forget why they are free, the world will be a dark and dangerous place.
Jay has this on the subject.The Emporer Misha has this.
LGF weighs in here.
InstaPundit had a link to follow.
HotAir has a tribute here.
Good Richard here.
The Captain salutes here.
Blogs of War weighs in here. With words from Dan Riehl.
AuTone (the new read for me) has a nice piece on the whole thing.
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Reason amongst the dhimmikrauts
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