It was the first day of a week-long cruise along the Italian coast, a romantic getaway designed to rekindle a failed marriage. Now, Lonnie Kocontes, 48, a Mission Viejo attorney, says he wishes they would have resisted temptation. His ex-wife, Micki Kanesaki, 52, disappeared their first night aboard the Island Escape as the cruise ship
The nightmare returns again and again for Sophia Castillo, even when she’s wide awake in the scorching daylight of a Central Valley summer. Her crew-cut little boy having fun at the county fair. Her little boy jumping alone aboard the Ferris wheel. Her little boy panicking and bolting from the swinging basket 90 feet high.
I get no pleasure in submitting these weekly reports of unexpected loss of life. These are reminders of the brevity of life and the necessity to—“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” (Mark 16:15-16)
“It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say ‘good morning’ and pass on by.” Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary commenting on the fact that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the
Sudden Death: A Patriot
Spc. Lee Reese, 22, of Ashland, Tenn., was in the lead Humvee on a mission in Iraq, when his vehicle hit an IED (improvised explosive device), killing him instantly. Spc. Reese preferred dangerous missions to sitting bored. In letters home, he was adamant that fighting for democracy in Iraq was the right thing to do.
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