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Letter To The Editor
PLEA TO MOTORISTS.
To The Editor Of The Sentinel:
What you are about to read isn't something that could happen, it did happen in one state, but it could happen in any state.  Three friends of mine and I saw it happen.

This happened on a clear day in perfect weather condition.  We were driving home from where we are stationed at in the service.  We were on a two-lane highway approaching an intersection which has been the scene of many an accident.  There is a traffic light at this intersection which a red Volkswagen went through the redlight and the tractor-trailer in front of us ran over it causing the trailer to jackknife into [[cut off clipping]] site lane.  A tractor-trailer coming [[cut off clipping]] r direction hit the trailer broadside [[cut off clipping]] the driver. We stopped the car and [[cut off clipping]] out to give help. [[cut off clipping]]ed one truck driver who suffered [[cut off clipping]] injuries, then I heard the crying [[cut off clipping]]mall child coming from the [[cut off clipping]]gen. We could hear the mother [[cut off clipping]]e child by his name, which was [[cut off clipping]]e four of us headed for the [[cut off clipping]]en which the one trailer was [[cut off clipping]] They say that a man can do [[cut off clipping]]s in the face of crisis and we [[cut off clipping]] My three friends pushed the [[cut off clipping]] far enough for me to get in the [[cut off clipping]]f the small car. I managed to [[cut off clipping]] other out. Then I saw the little [[cut off clipping]]ed with blood and I crawled in [[cut off clipping]] and brought him back out.
[[cut off clipping]]time the rescue squad had [[cut off clipping]]ng with the police. It started to [[cut off clipping]]freeing the other truck driver [[cut off clipping]]s had been completely severed [[cut off clipping]]ody. The young woman had died [[cut off clipping]]nd out later that she was 19 and [[cut off clipping]]d is in Viet Nam. The one truck [[cut off clipping]]lost his legs died from the loss [[cut off clipping]]nd the most sickening thing of [[cut off clipping]]enseless smashup was when the [[cut off clipping]]d boy died in my arms. My [[cut off clipping]]I who had seen some of the [[cut off clipping]]ing in Viet Nam in places like [[cut off clipping]]u Lai, Hue city, and Khe Sanh [[cut off clipping]]sed to being around mangled [[cut off clipping]]d, and death just stood around [[cut off clipping]]d broke into tears.
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