[Vision2020] Hooray! Kai Changed His Position!....Not

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Eiselein stated:

"I have a younger brother, Anthony, or Danny, as we called him. In junior
high, he started smoking weed. It progressed through high school, escalating
into booze, coke, speed, opiates, you name it.  All through it, he always
wanted his weed more than anything.  Now, 30 years later, nobody knows where
he is, whether he is dead or alive, in prison or in a gutter. I haven't seen
or spoken with my brother in 15 years, I can recall every word of our last
conversation. My mother has searched for him, to no avail. My daughter has
never met her uncle, she only knows him from stories and pictures."

Perhaps the reason why nobody knows where your brother is now is because
nobody cared where he was then.

I grew up in Los Angeles in the 60's.  In high school I experimented with
marijuana a few times.  After my folks found out, I couldn't go to the store
without an escort.  My activities were monitored and restricted for just
over a year.  I was so upset at my parents for what I perceived as
"controlling my life" that I became active in Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and Voices in Vital America (VIVA) during my senior year just
to get out of the house.  I am convinced that my parents let me participate
in SDS and VIVA activities because they felt as long as I was politically
active, I wasn't doing drugs.  They were right (although they did have my
older sister tag along with me on occasion).  I have not been involved
whatsoever with any illicit drugs other than those few times in high school
with marijuana.

I am telling you this because, had my parents NOT been there to discipline
me (pronounced "care for me"), God knows what would have become of me.  So,
don't blame it on the availability of drugs, Mr. Eiselein.

More than likely your brother had questions.  There may have simply been
nobody there to answer him.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box.