The 3rd of September

TheSportsPredictor · Sep 3, 2009

albert77 said:

"It was the Third of September, that day I'll always remember..."
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
The Temptations

Sept. 3 will always be a black-letter day for me, because it was on that date back in 1972 -- right about this time of night (12:30 in the morning, on a Sunday) -- that my best friend was killed in a car crash. We'd just started our senior year, and we were tight. That was the day my childhood ended.

Nearly 40 years have passed and not a single day goes by that I don't think about my friend and how he died, suddenly without warning. Poof! One second he was alive with his whole life in front of him, the next he was gone forever.

I wish I could say I learned lessons from his death, but really I didn't, at least not until I was well into my adult years. In fact, I become a little fatalistic and did a lot of crazy, stupid things because I just didn't care. Now that I have a lot fewer years to look forward to, and a lot more to look back on, I can see that that day 37 years ago was the pivotal moment in my life. There is before my friend died, and there's after, and nothing was ever the same.

I know we have some pretty deep thinkers on this board and a lot of people who have been through what I went through, some who have been through a lot worse. I'd like to just open this up to anyone who has been touched by tragedy and maybe offer some insights on how you coped, sort of as a memorial to my long-lost friend. He was a great guy, loved by everyone who knew him, and I've missed him terribly over these years.
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Very nice tribute.

You should think about expanding this into an article. This is very well written. I bet it would be a riveting read. And maybe therapeutic.

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