Storyline Fall 2020

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“Why should you get credit?”
Luke 6:32
My father was brutally murdered by 2 young men
who were under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
My father lived alone on the farm where I
was raised. He was 90 years old but
enjoyed good health. We often encouraged
him to go into a nursing home so he would
not be all alone, but he wasn’t interested.
He lived about 2 kilometers from the village
where he knew everyone and could visit and
have coffee with friends.
Early one morning while he was sleeping,
3 young men who were on drugs or alcohol
came into the yard to steal gasoline. The
gasoline storage tank was empty. They
thought they should check the house to see
if there was anything valuable to steal. They
broke down the door and entered. Of course
my father woke up and got out of bed to see
what was happening. This frightened the
young men and they thought they should kill
him so that he could not report them as they
had criminal records. They beat him severely
with a hammer and thought that he was
dead and they left for the village to spend
the rest of the day with friends. They weren’t
aware of the surveillance camera on the
property, and were arrested the same day.
My father was, in fact, not dead and drove
himself to the home of my cousin, who took
him to the hospital. He lived a few days but
he died from the beating.
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