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I got home from work Sunday afternoon to find strange status updates and wall-to-wall conversations going on around Facebook. I started doing some research and discovered that Greg Hawley, one of my bosses at the Steamboat Arabia museum in Kansas City, Mo, was killed in a car accident Saturday night. He was a kind, funny, smart man. I never held it against him that he was a Republican, and we always had interesting political conversations. I would have loved to have talked to him more often during this political season. I'm sure he hated Obama :) When I showed an interest in working in the preservation lab at the museum, Greg gave me a chance and made me a lab tech. He was always willing to sit down and talk to me about personal events in my life, and he never failed to smile and say hello every time I saw him.
Greg just became a grandfather, and was just starting to enjoy life with his wife as his kids started leaving the house. He was only 50 years old! The senseless death just blows me away. He was driving home from the museum when two idiots decided that Interstate 70 was a good place to race each other. One of them hit Greg, his car rolled several times, and Greg was thrown from his vehicle. He wasn't wearing his seat belt, and who knows whether or not he would have lived. I bet every single member of the Hawley family will never drive without their seat belt now.
I've been upset by this, but it wasn't until today that it really hit me how horrible this was. I found a blog written by a man who was right behind the racing cars and Greg, and pulled over to check on Greg after his truck came to a stop. He stayed with Greg through the whole ordeal, holding his hand until the paramedics made him move so that they could tend to Greg. Greg died at the hospital; luckily his family was able to get there and say goodbye before Greg died.
It's times like this that it hits me how fragile life is, and how fast it can change. Greg Hawley wasn't perfect, but he was a good man, and didn't deserve to have his life cut short like this. I will miss him.
Greg just became a grandfather, and was just starting to enjoy life with his wife as his kids started leaving the house. He was only 50 years old! The senseless death just blows me away. He was driving home from the museum when two idiots decided that Interstate 70 was a good place to race each other. One of them hit Greg, his car rolled several times, and Greg was thrown from his vehicle. He wasn't wearing his seat belt, and who knows whether or not he would have lived. I bet every single member of the Hawley family will never drive without their seat belt now.
I've been upset by this, but it wasn't until today that it really hit me how horrible this was. I found a blog written by a man who was right behind the racing cars and Greg, and pulled over to check on Greg after his truck came to a stop. He stayed with Greg through the whole ordeal, holding his hand until the paramedics made him move so that they could tend to Greg. Greg died at the hospital; luckily his family was able to get there and say goodbye before Greg died.
It's times like this that it hits me how fragile life is, and how fast it can change. Greg Hawley wasn't perfect, but he was a good man, and didn't deserve to have his life cut short like this. I will miss him.