Moment Of Silence...and A Prayer

[toofun]

Dont know if this is appropriate or not but just need to vent out and get this off my chest..... I lost a friend of mine today. Second one in the last six months. Dont know if anybody on this board is from the North Shore massachusetts area but you may have heard of a double homicide in Wakefield Massachusetts at Allstate concrete today. Two men were killed one of which was 39 year old Michael Zammitti. He was shot dead at his desk along with a second man Chester Roberts who was shot in the back.

Michael was a good man, with a loving wife and three beautiful children. He lived in my neighborhood a few years ago and recently moved away.We still managed to keep in touch but it had been a while since we have gotten the families together. Today got me thinking...we all tend to get busy with our own lives, our jobs and other responsibilities. We tend to think that we can always catch up in due time, not realizing that someone can be gone in a heart beat, a blip, a fraction of a second. I want to offer out this moment of silence, this prayer, this small moment of reflection to all the people who have lost someone that they knew in their life. Whos life was cut short and taken from us when we least expected it.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Zammitti family, to Michelle and her three kids and to Michael who I know will be always watching over them. I hope you will join me in sending a prayer their way tonight.And please feel free to add on the names of the family and friends in your own lives that have come to pass so that our prayers may be with them as well.

Sincerely,

Mark Orgettas

"TOOFUN" 69 Camaro ss Conv.

[Steve1968LS2]

Sorry to hear man.. that's messed up.

Prayers out to his family, the ones left behind suffer the most. :(

[WS6]

you know with the coverage that is going on with the grad student in NYC that was raped and murdered it gets me thinking how people can exist in this world that would do something like this. i just can not imagine hurting someone out of anger or hate or any reason other than self defense. the other side is that ive realized your right, anyone of us or our friends can be gone in a split second. so i try to take the time to simply say, hey, even if i only have a minute to talk. as ive gotten older this has settled in more and become much more obvious that friendship is something not to be taken for granted.

sorry for your loss Mark.

[shmoov69]

Sorry to hear about your friend Mark. It is all too easy to take things (and of all things, life in general) for granted. Tornado's blasted thru here last night and missed me this time, but did get alot of people that I know and had LOTS of destruction. A friend of mine lost their step father when the house went away around them. He died on the way to the hospital. It was too bad of weather to get him there quick enough.
Our very breath is a gift from GOD, and we need to try (unsucessfully usually) to remember that.
I hope his wife and kids will cope with it as well as possible.

[trapin]

This whole country is full of animals. It's getting ridiculous.

It's stories like this that bring me closer and closer to gun ownership.

My condolences to you for your loss.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Sorry to hear of your loss, Mark.

[vanzuuk1]

Sorry.

[USAZR1]

Absent companions.

[syborg tt]

my thought and prayers are with his family

[1Fine69]

My name is Alex and im 17. I just started on this board and already i begin to see how wonderful the people that are a part of this board really are. My mother died when i was 14. She was a para-palegic and i know she is watching over me today. It is definately hard for the ones left behind but we have to keep in mind.....the people that have passed are now at rest and in a better place. Mark i know where your head is at right now and my condolences go out to you and Mike's family. My thoughts and prayers are with you, god bless.

[DarkBuddha]

To good friends gone... god speed.

[Steven]

My prayers for all concerned.

[mpozzi]

Mark and Alex, My heart goes out to you and all of the direct and extended families. Out sympathies as well. Mary Pozzi

[rob07002]

Nothing sadder then a young life full of potential cut short...... My praters and condolences.

[ItDoRun]

May God use this message from Mark's earlier post to help draw us closer to Him. I think we take for granted God's gift of salvation to us. It's times like this that should make us all examine our lives and our relationship with Christ. Sorry, for the loss of you friend, Mark. You and those two families are in my prayers.

Chris