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THE BIG STORY/Joys and Sorrows
The Big Story
Joys and Sorrows: the Charles John Eimers Memorial
by Rick Boettger
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Thank you, Rick,
But for the cold and wind that 61 degree night I would have been there. As it was, I cried watching the video. I found the ceremony, the letter, and the background music very moving. The whole affair is extremely sad, for everyone, and too-little mentioned throughout the national alarm over increasing police violence, is the way all our service workers, – teachers, fire personnel, police, and civil servants, have been squeezed half to death by the recession’s cutbacks, expected to carry bigger workloads, and absorb the still-dwindling value of the dollar in the soft landing.