Turn loss into win

More than three decades ago, a young talented Spokane man was nominated by Tom Foley to all four military academies (the only time this has ever happened). He wanted to be a pilot, so he chose the Air Force Academy. A year into his military life, he came home on leave and reconnected with his best bud. They went to hang out and later that night, the Alfa Romeo left the road at a high rate of speed. This young man was killed and his best bud knocked unconscious.

The police waited outside his room eager to interrogate him. The mother who had just lost her son made the police realize that nothing good would come from prosecuting the young man in the hospital bed.

That young man graduated from college and is now a doctor. He lost his best friend and lives with the fact that he was there when his best bud died.

Nothing Preston Maher, or the courts, do can bring back those two beautiful souls who left way too soon. Perhaps Maher can always remember those girls by making the world a better place, just like Josie and MacKenzie would have continued to do.

Larry Treffry

Spokane