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purplerabbit ([personal profile] purplerabbit) wrote2006-05-31 04:05 pm

In Remembrance...

John Douglas Atkins...
Daddy I love you,
Daddy I miss you,
Daddy, I always will.

From "I Dream of Death" by Dawn Atkins


My dad was killed 31 years ago today. It was a beautiful May day, Saturday of Memorial Weekend. Here are photos I took of him just hours before the hit and run accident.



If you don't know the history behind this, here are some previous entries about my dad's tragedy:

  • 2001-06-04:
    purplerabbit: As the Sun Rises: Emotional Mobius Strip


  • 2005-03-25:
    purplerabbit: An Easter Memory -- Coming of Age and the End of Faith


  • 2006-01-28:
    purplerabbit: Challenger and Release

  • [identity profile] dalbino83.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
    I read your posts about your father. Powerful stuff. Thank you for sharing him with us.

    [identity profile] davesslave.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
    Your father sounded like a wonderful man. I'm sorry you lost him in such a tragic way.