PALSER: Guardian angels saved lives in Blue Hill
9-5-12.
It's a date that will be etched on the hearts of Blue Hill residents forever. Like Pearl Harbor, Kennedy's assassination, Columbine or the Twin Towers. You just don't forget these things.
9-5-12 was Blue Hill's day of tragedy and tears — a heartache that won't easily go away.
In a town of just more than 900 residents, the pain is very personal. If you weren't related to one of the four killed, you knew their names, their faces. You saw them at school or the grocery store, the fair or church.
You will see them no more.
A bus driver.
A farm boy.
A smiley, World War II-loving high schooler.
A girlie, fashion-conscious fifth-grader.
They are no longer here, but their names, their spirits, their legacies will live on.
By the grace of God, not all of the kids riding the bus home from school on that gravel road Wednesday will be buried.
But their fates could have been much different, if not for two guardian angels.
Ron Meyer and Philip Petr, both Blue Hill men who have cattle in the area of the crash, arrived upon the scene and pulled kids off the bus.
It's a date that will be etched on the hearts of Blue Hill residents forever. Like Pearl Harbor, Kennedy's assassination, Columbine or the Twin Towers. You just don't forget these things.
9-5-12 was Blue Hill's day of tragedy and tears — a heartache that won't easily go away.
In a town of just more than 900 residents, the pain is very personal. If you weren't related to one of the four killed, you knew their names, their faces. You saw them at school or the grocery store, the fair or church.
You will see them no more.
A bus driver.
A farm boy.
A smiley, World War II-loving high schooler.
A girlie, fashion-conscious fifth-grader.
They are no longer here, but their names, their spirits, their legacies will live on.
By the grace of God, not all of the kids riding the bus home from school on that gravel road Wednesday will be buried.
But their fates could have been much different, if not for two guardian angels.
Ron Meyer and Philip Petr, both Blue Hill men who have cattle in the area of the crash, arrived upon the scene and pulled kids off the bus.
To read more, see Saturday's Hastings Tribune or the Tribune e-edition.>>>
