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Even if I don't "really know" anyone here because we never really
meet anyone (I think almost everyone is in this case), I have learnt
to appreciate everyone here. You are now, everyone, important in my
live. Each day I come here.
I am deeply affected by this cruel news. My english is too bad
to better define what I am feeling but I am really sad.
All my thoughts go to Ron and his wife. This is too unjust.
Fabian.
Ken wrote:
>
> To: The POV-Ray Community,
>
> It is my very sad duty to share with you a tragedy that has happened
> to someone in our community and a member of the POV-Team.
>
> Ron Parker's 9 year old son Phillip was walking across an ice covered
> pond near his home Saturday afternoon which subsequently broke under his
> weight. It was 45 min. before divers were able to reach him and he died
> early Sunday morning as a result of this accident. I have attached an
> article from a local news paper that describes the event and the extent
> of how this tragedy is affecting Ron and his family.
>
> Because of this accident Ron will most likely be absent from the news
> groups for the next week or two. If you would like to discuss this here
> you are welcome to though Ron mentioned that he will likely not be reading
> the groups for a while. If you would prefer to extend your sympathies to
> Ron and his wife Julie personaly, through e-mail, he has informed me that
> it would be ok to do so.
>
> If you do send Ron an e-mail please use this e-mail address -
> ron### [at] povray org
>
> I wish I could say more, or somehow lessen the grief for Ron and his
> family, but for once I find myself speechless and would like Ron to
> know that our thoughts and our sympathies are with him.
>
> -- Ken Tyler
>
> Local News Article:
>
> Boy dies after falling through ice
>
> Grieving mother remembers happier times as she copes with the loss of her
> only child.
>
> By Darnell J. Compton of The News@Sentinel
>
> Just last week, Julie Parker took her 9-year-old son, Phillip Parker,
> to Wendy's for a kid's meal and a toy "time capsule." Inside was a paper
> asking, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
>
> That was when Julie Parker learned her son wanted to be an astronaut.
>
> Today, her only child is gone.
>
> Phillip Parker died Sunday, a day after he fell through the ice of a pond
> in a subdivision in northern Allen County. The boy was flown to Parkview
> Hospital by Samaritan Helicopter in critical condition -- he had been
> underwater at least 45 minutes before he was pulled from the water's bottom,
> said conservation officer Steve Gerber.
>
> A witness saw the boy fall through the ice about 3:20 p.m. and called 911
> from Lima Road, near Cook Road. The boy's head and an arm rose above the water,
> then he disappeared.
>
> Divers found the boy, and looked for others, but found no one, Gerber said,
> noting a group of children was playing on the pond earlier in the afternoon.
>
> The ice on the pond was about an inch thick, Gerber said.
>
> Phillip's mother wasn't certain it was her son until she was at Parkview
> Hospital and they showed her his clothes.
>
> "I knew exactly what he was wearing that day," she said.
>
> The boy was taken to intensive care before surgery, where his mother saw
> him lying there, unconscious. "I told him we loved him, and we were there
> for him."
>
> She still expects her son to return home, and knows it will be difficult
> to adjust to his absence.
>
> "This sort of thing happens to other people's kids," she said. "It's kind
> of quiet around here.
>
> Her son was quick-witted, funny and talkative. If he wasn't out in-line
> skating, or with other kids in their Mill Stone subdivision, he was playing
> checkers or was at a computer, playing "SimPark," or "Age of Empire,"
> challenging simulation games.
>
> The third-grader from Washington Elementary School was the class clown,
> she said.
>
> "He had a real witty sense of humor," she said.
>
> She laughs as she remembers him playing with his Legos. His last creation
> was a two-tailed elephant robot.
>
> "He had a vivid imagination," she said. "There's not a corner of this house
> that doesn't have a piece of him in it. Clothes, toys ... everything reminds
> me of him.
>
> "I feel like I am kind of still waiting for him to run around to the front
> door. I know that he won't."
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Fabian Brau wrote:
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> Even if I don't "really know" anyone here because we never really
> meet anyone (I think almost everyone is in this case), I have learnt
> to appreciate everyone here. You are now, everyone, important in my
> live. Each day I come here.
> I am deeply affected by this cruel news. My english is too bad
> to better define what I am feeling but I am really sad.
That's exactly what I experienced. This isn't such an impersonal meduium
after all, is it?
> All my thoughts go to Ron and his wife. This is too unjust.
>
> Fabian.
>
A side-note: Ken posted an e-mail adress to send condolances to. I hope
everyone sent their messages not only to this newsgroup.
Remco
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Ron,
I do not really know you, nor your family. I can't imagine the loss, nor
lessen the grief. Words are so senseless.
However, know that my thoughts and all my sympathy go to you and yours.
Sincerely,
Philippe
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It's a sad moment when any human being dies, but when someone so young has a fatal
acident
the grief is magnified. Someone said that this medium is impersonal, but I feel I
know
most of the characters who inhabit this corner of the web. Ron is one I admire for
his
work, which we have all benefited from, but also for his tolerance and humour. I am
sure
that everyone in the group feels the shock that I did and wish there was some way of
lessening the grief for him. There isn't, of course, but perhaps our words showing we
all
want to demonstrate our affection for him might offer a crumb of comfort.
Thanks to Ken for posting the sad news.
David
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